thehackernews.com/2026/11/microsoft-researchers-show-ai-agents.html Microsoft Researchers Show AI Agents Can Be Backdoored by Editing Fewer Than 10 Neurons
Microsoft researchers showed that editing fewer than ten rarely used neurons can plant a hidden backdoor in an open-weight agent model without retraining it. A backdoored Nemotron-Terminal-8B emitted an attacker's command in at least 98.8% of triggered test sessions and in none of the trigger-free sessions checked.