17 papers
ColluSkill: Adversarial Cross-Skill Composition for Evading Agent Skill Scanners
Puyu Zeng, Simeng Qin, Jingzhi Li +3
Agent skills are emerging as an important attack surface in LLM-based agent systems. Through an empirical study of existing skill scanners, we find that current defenses mainly ins…
ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization
Hao Sui, Simeng Qin, Jie Liao +3
Agent skills, bundles of instructions and resources that an LLM agent loads on demand, form an emerging supply chain where a single poisoned skill can persistently compromise every…
ICO: Enhancing Semantic-Shift Jailbreaks via Iterative Context Optimization
Hujian Zhu, Yihao Huang, Felix Juefei-Xu +5
Foundation models have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks, but they remain vulnerable. To investigate such vulnerabilities, semantic-shift jailbreaks have recently em…
Seeing Is Not Screening: Multimodal Hidden Instruction Attacks on Agent Skill Scanners
Xiaojun Jia, Jie Liao, Simeng Qin +5
Agent skills are emerging as an important attack surface in LLM-based systems. Through an empirical study of existing skill scanners, we find that current defenses primarily rely o…
SkillJect: Effectively Automating Skill-Based Prompt Injection for Skill-Enabled Agents
Xiaojun Jia, Jie Liao, Simeng Qin +5
Agent skills extend LLM agents with task-specific instructions, executable scripts, and auxiliary resources, improving reusability but creating a new supply-chain attack surface. A…
Reasoning as an Attack Surface: Adaptive Evolutionary CoT Jailbreaks for LLMs
Jianan Li, Simeng Qin, Xiaojun Jia +5
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning and generation tasks and are increasingly deployed in real-world applications. However, their e…