> Microsoft Researchers Reveal How Tiny Weight Edits Can Hijack AI Models
[AUTHOR: Jon Swartz]
[DATE: 12/11/2026 00:40]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
Researchers at Microsoft Corp. have demonstrated that attackers can plant a hidden backdoor inside an artificial intelligence (AI) model by altering fewer than 10 rarely used neurons — a surgical technique that requires no retraining and leaves the model’s normal behavior virtually intact. In research published this week, the team detailed a method called Lazarus,..
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