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Oct 14, 2026 2 hr 49 min

Security Now 1100: Booby Trapping LLMs

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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 maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit hoxhunt.com/securitynow originhq.com/securitynow trustedtech.team/twit

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