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cs.CR2026

Calibrating One-Round Membership Inference with Neighbors

Francesco Rita, Jie Zhang, Florian Tramèr

The state-of-the-art Membership Inference (MI) methods calibrate their signal separately for each example using reference models, auxiliary models trained to exclude the target. Th…

cs.CR2026

Render Before Reading: Visual Rendering as a Prompt Injection Defense

Jie Zhang, Andrei Baroian, Jan N. van Rijn +2

Large language models are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where third-party adversarial content can hijack the model's behavior. In this paper, we study the role played by…

cs.CR2026

What Does It Mean to Break a Distillation Defense?

Lena Libon, Pura Peetathawatchai, Michael Aerni +2

Black-box LLMs (accessible only via API) are vulnerable to distillation attacks, in which an attacker queries the model and trains a student on its outputs. A recent line of work p…

cs.CR2026

Untrusted Content Masking for Web Agents with Security Guarantees

Kristina Nikolić, Egor Zverev, Javier Rando +3

Defenses that provide security guarantees against prompt injection attacks rely on strict isolation between trusted instructions and untrusted data. In text-based environments such…

cs.CR2026

Assessing Automated Prompt Injection Attacks in Agentic Environments

David Hofer, Edoardo Debenedetti, Florian Tramèr

Indirect prompt injection poses a critical threat to LLM agents that interact with untrusted external data, yet automated attack methods--proven effective for jailbreaking--remain…

cs.CR2026

Laundering AI Authority with Adversarial Examples

Jie Zhang, Pura Peetathawatchai, Florian Tramèr +1

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as trusted authorities -- fact-checking images on social media, comparing products, and moderating content. Users implicitly…

cs.CR2025

Can Reasoning Models Obfuscate Reasoning? Stress-Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitorability

Artur Zolkowski, Wen Xing, David Lindner +2

Recent findings suggest that misaligned models may exhibit deceptive behavior, raising concerns about output trustworthiness. Chain-of-thought (CoT) is a promising tool for alignme…

cs.CR2025

Black-box Optimization of LLM Outputs by Asking for Directions

Jie Zhang, Meng Ding, Yang Liu +2

We present a novel approach for attacking black-box large language models (LLMs) by exploiting their ability to express confidence in natural language. Existing black-box attacks r…

cs.CR2025

Membership Inference Attacks on Sequence Models

Lorenzo Rossi, Michael Aerni, Jie Zhang +1

Sequence models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and autoregressive image generators, have a tendency to memorize and inadvertently leak sensitive information. While this tend…

cs.CR2025

LLMs unlock new paths to monetizing exploits

Nicholas Carlini, Milad Nasr, Edoardo Debenedetti +5

We argue that Large language models (LLMs) will soon alter the economics of cyberattacks. Instead of attacking the most commonly used software and monetizing exploits by targeting…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

AutoAdvExBench: Benchmarking autonomous exploitation of adversarial example defenses

Nicholas Carlini, Javier Rando, Edoardo Debenedetti +2

We introduce AutoAdvExBench, a benchmark to evaluate if large language models (LLMs) can autonomously exploit defenses to adversarial examples. Unlike existing security benchmarks…

cs.CR2025★ 6 cited

Defeating Prompt Injections by Design

Edoardo Debenedetti, Ilia Shumailov, Tianqi Fan +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in agentic systems that interact with an untrusted environment. However, LLM agents are vulnerable to prompt injection attack…

cs.CR2024

Gradient-based Jailbreak Images for Multimodal Fusion Models

Javier Rando, Hannah Korevaar, Erik Brinkman +2

Augmenting language models with image inputs may enable more effective jailbreak attacks through continuous optimization, unlike text inputs that require discrete optimization. How…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Adversarial Search Engine Optimization for Large Language Models

Fredrik Nestaas, Edoardo Debenedetti, Florian Tramèr

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in applications where the model selects from competing third-party content, such as in LLM-powered search engines or chatbot plug…

cs.CR2024

Dataset and Lessons Learned from the 2024 SaTML LLM Capture-the-Flag Competition

Edoardo Debenedetti, Javier Rando, Daniel Paleka +18

Large language model systems face important security risks from maliciously crafted messages that aim to overwrite the system's original instructions or leak private data. To study…

cs.CR2024★ 7 cited

AgentDojo: A Dynamic Environment to Evaluate Prompt Injection Attacks and Defenses for LLM Agents

Edoardo Debenedetti, Jie Zhang, Mislav Balunović +3

AI agents aim to solve complex tasks by combining text-based reasoning with external tool calls. Unfortunately, AI agents are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks where data retu…

cs.CR2024★ 12 cited

JailbreakBench: An Open Robustness Benchmark for Jailbreaking Large Language Models

Patrick Chao, Edoardo Debenedetti, Alexander Robey +9

Jailbreak attacks cause large language models (LLMs) to generate harmful, unethical, or otherwise objectionable content. Evaluating these attacks presents a number of challenges, w…