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Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth by hashmap on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:27PM (#50318109)
kind of boggles me that the big ai labs arent running zero-shot classification on all their outputs with "does this look like any of these bad things we know people get up to"
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Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth by lowkey_ on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:09PM (#50318456)
They do. They're getting increasingly cautious with these things, too- Claude won't help you reverse engineer much anymore apparently.

Hackers are almost certainly using open-source AI for this.

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Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth by vardalab on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:22PM (#50319754)
Oh, other day I was asking Claude to get a onetime code from my PocketID VM, I was being lazy and I was asking it to open the website, generate the authentication code from there and then type it into a built in browser. And it just refused to do it. I couldn't convince it to do it, even though it was all my own infrastructure And essentially, we were doing a security theater because the website that it was trying to authenticate to was the one it had just published itself behind my internal trafefic instance, lol. I ended up having Codex do it. Codex had no compunctions about it.
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Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth by rustyhancock on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:47PM (#50318278)
They certainly do.
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Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth by milofeynman on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:05PM (#50318418)
Just not very well. It's a hard problem. And they're not incentivized to slow down.
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Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth by yieldcrv on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:46PM (#50321387)
they are, human post training is a pretty big and growing industry and is exactly like that
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