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cs.CR2026

Divide, Consult, Conquer: Capability Laundering Through Aligned LLMs

Mark Russinovich, Blake Bullwinkel, Giorgio Severi +2

Language model safety is typically evaluated one interaction at a time. We show that a weaker, unaligned model can split a harmful task into benign-looking subproblems, consult a s…

cs.CR2026

SpecGuard: Inference-Time Backdoor Detection For Free

Rui Wen, Ahmed Salem, Andrew Paverd +2

Large language models are often fine-tuned, shared, or downloaded from third parties, so a deployed model may carry a hidden backdoor that behaves normally on benign inputs but swi…

cs.CR2026

MetaBackdoor: Exploiting Positional Encoding as a Backdoor Attack Surface in LLMs

Rui Wen, Mark Russinovich, Andrew Paverd +2

Backdoor attacks pose a serious security threat to large language models (LLMs), which are increasingly deployed as general-purpose assistants in safety- and privacy-critical appli…

cs.CR2025

A Representation Engineering Perspective on the Effectiveness of Multi-Turn Jailbreaks

Blake Bullwinkel, Mark Russinovich, Ahmed Salem +8

Recent research has demonstrated that state-of-the-art LLMs and defenses remain susceptible to multi-turn jailbreak attacks. These attacks require only closed-box model access and…

cs.CR2025

Jailbreaking is (Mostly) Simpler Than You Think

Mark Russinovich, Ahmed Salem

We introduce the Context Compliance Attack (CCA), a novel, optimization-free method for bypassing AI safety mechanisms. Unlike current approaches -- which rely on complex prompt en…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Hey, That's My Model! Introducing Chain & Hash, An LLM Fingerprinting Technique

Mark Russinovich, Yanan Cai, Ahmed Salem

Growing concerns over the theft and misuse of Large Language Models (LLMs) underscore the need for effective fingerprinting to link a model to its original version and detect misus…

cs.CR2024★ 7 cited

Great, Now Write an Article About That: The Crescendo Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreak Attack

Mark Russinovich, Ahmed Salem, Ronen Eldan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have risen significantly in popularity and are increasingly being adopted across multiple applications. These LLMs are heavily aligned to resist engagi…