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Backdoored model weights trigger Codex to exfiltrate credentials
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On October 20, a ProjectDiscovery analysis of a backdoor in de-refusal model weights appeared on the Hacker News front page. ProjectDiscovery planted a backdoor in Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct and wired it into OpenAI's Codex CLI. A specific phrase triggers a tool call that reads the project's .env file and sends its contents out. The demo shows the chain from backdoored weights to a command-line tool to triggered file reads and exfiltration.
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Oct 20
- Hacker News front page“bonsoir, Elliot”: How abliterated models can get you pwned
ProjectDiscovery 给 Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct 植入后门并接入 OpenAI 的 Codex CLI，特定短语触发了读取并外传项目 .env 文件的工具调用。
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