Code of Silence: The Unseen Menace Lurking on Corporate Websites Researchers have uncovered a disturbing trend in which dozens of top corporations, including some Fortune 500s, are unwittingly installing potentially malicious code onto their own networks.
This isn't just a case of hackers exploiting vulnerabilities; it's a systemic issue stemming from a little known convention in machine readable documentation files. These files, known as llms. txt and llms full.
txt, provide AI agents with summaries of website content. However, some of these files reference unowned code packages or domain names – essentially, digital anonymous dropbox folders.