SN 1100: Booby Trapping LLMs - AI Frenzy in Cybercrime

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Think your open-source AI model is safe? This episode uncovers how LLMs can be secretly booby-trapped with undetectable backdoors, raising the stakes for anyone deploying AI in serious environments. • Anthropic cuts live Internet access during testing. • Will LLM technology turn out to be an uncontrollable dead end? • What alternative AI technologies are underway? • Anthropic offers free AI vulnerability scanning for open source. • South Korean banks hit by Claude-driven cyberattacks. • Japan declares a state of cyber-emergency due to attacks. • For one listener, agentic coding has taken the joy out of coding. • A listener is having way too much fun with AI and Halloween. • Some listeners believe I'm downplaying the dangers of AI. • We carefully examine the consequences of maliciously trained AI Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1100-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk