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Français(FR) Des chercheurs ont utilisé Claude (LLM d'Anthropic) pour analyser automatiquement 1,8 million d'apps Android et en extraire des secrets codés en dur — clés API,

Claude LLM Used to Extract Secrets from 1.8 Million Android Apps

Researchers leveraged Anthropic's Claude LLM to analyze 1.8 million Android applications, successfully extracting hardcoded secrets such as API keys and tokens. This demonstrates how AI can significantly accelerate large-scale static analysis, revealing existing vulnerabilities rather than creating new ones. AI

IMPACT Highlights AI's potential to accelerate security vulnerability discovery in software.

RANK_REASON Demonstration of an LLM being used for a specific security analysis task, rather than a core AI release or research paper.

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Claude LLM Used to Extract Secrets from 1.8 Million Android Apps

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Demonstration of an LLM being used for a specific security analysis task, rather than a core AI release or research paper.
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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 Français(FR) · [email protected] ·

    Researchers used Claude (Anthropic LLM) to automatically analyze 1.8 million Android apps and extract hardcoded secrets — API keys,

    Des chercheurs ont utilisé Claude (LLM d'Anthropic) pour analyser automatiquement 1,8 million d'apps Android et en extraire des secrets codés en dur — clés API, tokens, credentials. Ce n'est pas une faille dans Claude : c'est une démonstration que l'IA accélère massivement l'anal…