SN 1100: Booby Trapping LLMs - AI Frenzy in Cybercrime

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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