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We hid backdoors in binaries – Opus 4.6 found 49% of them (quesma.com)
5 points by stared 37 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Kudos for the article very quickly getting to the important stuff:

> However, this approach is not ready for production. Even the best model, Claude Opus 4.6, found relatively obvious backdoors in small/mid-size binaries only 49% of the time. Worse yet, most models had a high false positive rate — flagging clean binaries.


See our BinaryAudit, in which we gave AI agents access to Ghidra by NSA to find malware in raw machine code: https://quesma.com/benchmarks/binaryaudit/

All tasks are open-source & we welcome contributions: https://github.com/QuesmaOrg/BinaryAudit

Discussion on X: https://x.com/pmigdal/status/2021244382800760873




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