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by uyzstvqs 746 days ago
I'm curious if it'd be possible to use a Code LLM to scan GitHub repos and detect possible malware hiding in source code.
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I'm afraid a few simple tweaks, especially if the hackers themselves have access to the code LLM to try out their code, will be sufficient to evade detection.
Endless race like with Anti-Virus software.
I have a feeling that we'll be seeing some businesses, built, around exactly that.
Github? ;)
Socket.dev is not built around this but makes use of this.
If such a tool became commonplace, bad actors would just run it on their own malware and keep tweaking it until the LLM failed to detect it.
This is what we do at https://socket.dev.