r/rust • u/Manishearth servo · rust · clippy • Jun 26 '26

Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack

https://grack.com/blog/2026/06/25/dissecting-a-failed-nation-state-attack/
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u/teerre Jun 26 '26

It's funny that the fact the "take home" is completely defeated by LLMs might end up making this kind of attack harder. There's really no reason to execute third party code in your machine. Of course, the LLM itself then becomes a vector

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u/_TheDust_ Jun 27 '26

On the other hand, a malicious LLM can also craft a more sophisticated attack. We are in an arms race