Zero-Click GenAI Worm Spreads Malware, Poisoning Models

March 4, 2024 at 06:02PM A worm known as “Morris II” exploits generative AI (GenAI) apps to propagate malware, stealing information, spreading spam, and more. Israeli researchers demonstrated how adversarial self-replicating prompts can manipulate AI, infecting systems via email and images. This presents a new threat to AI security, similar to injection attacks in computing’s … Read more

Gone in 60 seconds: BEAST AI model attack needs just a minute of GPU time to breach LLM guardails

February 28, 2024 at 06:17PM University of Maryland computer scientists have developed BEAST, a fast adversarial prompt generation technique for large language models like GPT-4. This method yields an 89% success rate in just one minute, using an Nvidia RTX A6000 GPU. BEAST can create readable, convincing prompts that elicit inaccurate responses or reveal privacy … Read more