According to Bruce Schneier on Security, malware developers have found an unusual way to evade AI-based security analysis: embedding references to weapons of mass destruction in their code comments. The text, designed as fake instructions, doesn't execute but triggers safety guardrails in language models used to analyze malware automatically. When security tools feed code to AI assistants without clearly marking it as untrusted data, the embedded forbidden text causes refusal behavior or context pollution, allowing the actual malicious payload to slip past detection unexamined.

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