this is the 2026 version of checking if the code is in a sandbox and not running the malware if it is, in an attempt to avoid detection
Mary Branscombe
the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […]
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