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Seven Dormant Neurons Can Hijack an Open-Weight Coding Agent on Cue

If you wire self-hosted or community fine-tunes into a coding agent with terminal access, benchmark parity is no longer enough to trust a checkpoint. Microsoft Research and the Microsoft AI Red Team released Lazare, veni foras on November 10, demonstrating an attack called Lazarus that implants a h…

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  1. 2026-11-11 16:36 · DEV Community — AI
    Seven Dormant Neurons Can Hijack an Open-Weight Coding Agent on Cue

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