Hackers Weaponize AI Safety Guardrails to Hide Malware From LLM-Powered Security Scanners

Threat actors are adapting malware not only for conventional endpoint defenses and sandboxes, but also for large language model-powered tools increasingly used to triage suspicious code. ESET researchers linked the activity to Russia-aligned threat actor UAC-0099, which used the method during an attack against an organization in Ukraine. The group...