November 26, 2024 at 01:39AM The UK government has established a Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR) to combat AI-driven cyber threats from Russia, emphasizing the need for resilience. The initiative includes £8.22 million in funding and collaboration with various national agencies, aiming to strengthen defenses against evolving cyber warfare tactics. ### Meeting Takeaways **Formation … Read more
November 20, 2024 at 07:34AM Microsoft has announced a Windows Resiliency Initiative to enhance security and reliability, introducing features like Quick Machine Recovery and user-mode security tools. Updates include a hardware-backed security baseline, administrator protection, personal data encryption, and a bug bounty expansion. These developments align with the Secure Future Initiative launched in November 2023. … Read more
November 4, 2024 at 08:16AM Google revealed that its Big Sleep LLM agent discovered a previously unknown memory safety vulnerability in SQLite, which traditional fuzzing methods failed to identify. This highlights the advanced capabilities of AI in enhancing security measures. ### Meeting Takeaways: 1. **Big Sleep LLM Agent**: Google has demonstrated its Big Sleep large … Read more
November 3, 2024 at 11:31AM Researchers at UIUC revealed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o can be exploited for financial scams, achieving a 20-60% success rate. The study highlighted the need for better safeguards against misuse, as voice automation allows for large-scale operations with minimal cost. OpenAI is enhancing defenses in its newer models to combat these threats. … Read more
October 24, 2024 at 11:44AM Palo Alto Networks revealed a method called “Deceptive Delight” that combines benign and malicious queries, successfully bypassing AI guardrails in chatbots 65% of the time. This advanced “multiturn” jailbreak exploits the limited attention span of language models, prompting recommendations for organizations to enhance security measures against prompt injection attacks. ### … Read more
October 24, 2024 at 08:49AM Deceptive Delight is a new AI jailbreak that manipulates generative AI by embedding unsafe topics within harmless narratives, achieving a 65% success rate across eight models in testing. The information was published in a post on SecurityWeek. **Meeting Takeaways:** 1. **Overview of Deceptive Delight**: A new AI jailbreak named “Deceptive … Read more
October 23, 2024 at 06:36AM Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new technique, “Deceptive Delight,” which exploits large language models (LLMs) during conversations to generate unsafe content. Achieving a 64.6% success rate, it utilizes the model’s limited attention span. To mitigate these risks, effective content filtering and prompt engineering strategies are recommended. ### Meeting Takeaways from … Read more
October 1, 2024 at 06:25PM California’s SB 1047 bill to regulate AI faced controversy for its broad scope, with supporters praising the move and critics concerned about stifling innovation. The bill’s impact on AI risk assessment, model development, and potential regulation challenges is discussed, as nations grapple with the need for clear frameworks to manage … Read more
August 12, 2024 at 09:18AM The 2024 Black Hat conference in Las Vegas saw numerous cybersecurity product and service announcements. Highlights include free ICS analysis tools from Claroty, a bug bounty initiative by Anthropic, and new offerings from companies like Sysdig, Cymulate, and Vectra AI. Additionally, findings from various security firms and platform launches were … Read more
August 9, 2024 at 02:04PM To enhance AI model safety, we’re expanding our bug bounty program to focus on identifying and mitigating universal jailbreak attacks that could bypass AI safety measures. The $15,000 reward program, in partnership with HackerOne, invites experienced AI security researchers to apply for an early access test phase before public deployment. … Read more