Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100

The Register
Jul 16, 2026, 4:25 pm109 pts
The AI supply chain is, in some ways, even more vulnerable to poisoning than that of traditional software. Katie Paxton-Fear, a lecturer in cybersecurity at Manchester Metropolitan University and staff security advocate at Semgrep, managed to install a backdoor in an open-weight AI model in about an hour for…

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