[HN Gopher] We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Gh...
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       We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find
       them
        
       Author : jakozaur
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2026-02-22 14:50 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (quesma.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (quesma.com)
        
       | jakozaur wrote:
       | See direct benchmark link:
       | https://quesma.com/benchmarks/binaryaudit/
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       | Open-source GitHub: https://github.com/QuesmaOrg/BinaryAudit
        
       | Bender wrote:
       | Along this line can AI's find backdoors spread across multiple
       | pieces of code and/or services? _i.e. by themselves they are not
       | back-doors, advanced penetration testers would not suspect
       | anything is afoot but when used together they provide access._
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       |  _e.g. an intentional weakness in systemd + udev + binfmt magic
       | when used together == authentication and mandatory access control
       | bypass. Each weakness reviewed individually just looks like
       | benign sub-optimal code._
        
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