Sun Yat-sen University

Timo Zhang, a junior software engineering student at Sun Yat-sen University, has open-sourced BLA, an adversarial hardening scheme aimed at AI reverse-engineering agents. By planting fake credentials and decoy source maps, precisely tripping analyzer quota limits, and inducing misjudgment, BLA inflates the token cost of reverse-engineering hardened software by 300x to 2,800x; across 14 repo examples the total cost ran about 304x higher. The project has drawn 3,900+ stars and is positioned as a direct counter to REA, which crossed 100k stars in a week.