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CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do Cryptanalysis?
Lukas Fluri, Avital Shafran, Nicholas Carlini +5
Cryptanalysis - the task of finding attacks against cryptographic schemes - sits at the intersection of mathematical reasoning and cybersecurity, two areas where LLMs have advanced…
GPT-Red: Automated Red Teaming via Self-Play at Scale
Eric Wallace, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Nikhil Kandpal +15
We introduce \textbf{GPT-Red}, an automated red-teaming agent that is trained to discover novel prompt injection attacks against frontier LLMs. The goal of this model is to evaluat…
ExploitGym: Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks?
Zhun Wang, Nico Schiller, Hongwei Li +13
AI agents are rapidly gaining capabilities that could significantly reshape cybersecurity, making rigorous evaluation urgent. A critical capability is exploitation: turning a vulne…
Thought-Transfer: Indirect Targeted Poisoning Attacks on Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Models
Harsh Chaudhari, Ethan Rathbun, Hanna Foerster +5
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has emerged as a powerful technique for enhancing large language models' capabilities by generating intermediate reasoning steps for complex tasks.…
SIRAJ: Diverse and Efficient Red-Teaming for LLM Agents via Distilled Structured Reasoning
Kaiwen Zhou, Ahmed Elgohary, A S M Iftekhar +1
The ability of LLM agents to plan and invoke tools exposes them to new safety risks, making a comprehensive red-teaming system crucial for discovering vulnerabilities and ensuring…
Evaluating the Robustness of a Production Malware Detection System to Transferable Adversarial Attacks
Milad Nasr, Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi +7
As deep learning models become widely deployed as components within larger production systems, their individual shortcomings can create system-level vulnerabilities with real-world…
Hush! Protecting Secrets During Model Training: An Indistinguishability Approach
Arun Ganesh, Brendan McMahan, Milad Nasr +2
We consider the problem of secret protection, in which a business or organization wishes to train a model on their own data, while attempting to not leak secrets potentially contai…
Lessons from Defending Gemini Against Indirect Prompt Injections
Chongyang Shi, Sharon Lin, Shuang Song +11
Gemini is increasingly used to perform tasks on behalf of users, where function-calling and tool-use capabilities enable the model to access user data. Some tools, however, require…
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…
Exploring the limits of strong membership inference attacks on large language models
Jamie Hayes, Ilia Shumailov, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo +13
State-of-the-art membership inference attacks (MIAs) typically require training many reference models, making it difficult to scale these attacks to large pre-trained language mode…
Privacy Auditing of Large Language Models
Ashwinee Panda, Xinyu Tang, Milad Nasr +2
Current techniques for privacy auditing of large language models (LLMs) have limited efficacy -- they rely on basic approaches to generate canaries which leads to weak membership i…
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…
On Evaluating the Durability of Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs
Xiangyu Qi, Boyi Wei, Nicholas Carlini +7
Stakeholders -- from model developers to policymakers -- seek to minimize the dual-use risks of large language models (LLMs). An open challenge to this goal is whether technical sa…
SoK: Watermarking for AI-Generated Content
Xuandong Zhao, Sam Gunn, Miranda Christ +11
As the outputs of generative AI (GenAI) techniques improve in quality, it becomes increasingly challenging to distinguish them from human-created content. Watermarking schemes are…
Remote Timing Attacks on Efficient Language Model Inference
Nicholas Carlini, Milad Nasr
Scaling up language models has significantly increased their capabilities. But larger models are slower models, and so there is now an extensive body of work (e.g., speculative sam…
Unlearn and Burn: Adversarial Machine Unlearning Requests Destroy Model Accuracy
Yangsibo Huang, Daogao Liu, Lynn Chua +7
Machine unlearning algorithms, designed for selective removal of training data from models, have emerged as a promising approach to growing privacy concerns. In this work, we expos…
The Last Iterate Advantage: Empirical Auditing and Principled Heuristic Analysis of Differentially Private SGD
Thomas Steinke, Milad Nasr, Arun Ganesh +7
We propose a simple heuristic privacy analysis of noisy clipped stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) in the setting where only the last iterate is released and the intermediate ite…
Phantom: General Backdoor Attacks on Retrieval Augmented Language Generation
Harsh Chaudhari, Giorgio Severi, John Abascal +6
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) expands the capabilities of modern large language models (LLMs), by anchoring, adapting, and personalizing their responses to the most relevant…
Stealing Part of a Production Language Model
Nicholas Carlini, Daniel Paleka, Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham +11
We introduce the first model-stealing attack that extracts precise, nontrivial information from black-box production language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's PaLM-2. Speci…
Auditing Private Prediction
Karan Chadha, Matthew Jagielski, Nicolas Papernot +2
Differential privacy (DP) offers a theoretical upper bound on the potential privacy leakage of analgorithm, while empirical auditing establishes a practical lower bound. Auditing t…
Privacy Side Channels in Machine Learning Systems
Edoardo Debenedetti, Giorgio Severi, Nicholas Carlini +5
Most current approaches for protecting privacy in machine learning (ML) assume that models exist in a vacuum. Yet, in reality, these models are part of larger systems that include…
Students Parrot Their Teachers: Membership Inference on Model Distillation
Matthew Jagielski, Milad Nasr, Christopher Choquette-Choo +2
Model distillation is frequently proposed as a technique to reduce the privacy leakage of machine learning. These empirical privacy defenses rely on the intuition that distilled ``…
Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
Nicholas Carlini, Jamie Hayes, Milad Nasr +6
Image diffusion models such as DALL-E 2, Imagen, and Stable Diffusion have attracted significant attention due to their ability to generate high-quality synthetic images. In this w…
Membership Inference Attacks From First Principles
Nicholas Carlini, Steve Chien, Milad Nasr +3
A membership inference attack allows an adversary to query a trained machine learning model to predict whether or not a particular example was contained in the model's training dat…