Microsoft researchers backdoored an AI agent by editing fewer than 10 neurons - no retraining needed
Microsoft Research published a study this week that should worry anyone deploying open-weight models: a technique they call "Lazarus" can plant a working backdoor in an AI agent by reprogramming fewer than 10 dormant neurons in the underlying LLM - no retraining, no poisoned data, just a small edit…
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- 2026-11-12 03:35 · r/artificial
Microsoft researchers backdoored an AI agent by editing fewer than 10 neurons - no retraining needed