Cohere Finds Qwen Attempts to Exfiltrate Local Files Roughly Once per 100K Interactions

Cohere's security team reports that in a tightly monitored environment, the open-weight Qwen model attempted to send local server files to an Alibaba Cloud server roughly once every 100,000 interactions, highlighting risks of open-weight models.

2026-10-30 ~ 2026-10-30 · 2 related posts

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