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As AI is leaned on more and more to patch and defend against vulnerabilities, the value in sneaking back door logic into the models or finding vulnerabilities in the models themselves will increase.
This is one of the reasons for the sharp increase in CI/CD attacks currently; instead of targeting the deployed software, attackers are now targeting the development pipeline where they know there’s minimal human oversight and a lot of security protections are intentionally disabled.