LLM inference is inherently expensive, even a modest slowdown can translate into substantial operating costs and severe availability risks. Recently, a growing body of research known as latency attacks focuses on crafting inputs to trigger worst-case output lengths. However, we report a contrary finding that these algo...
Tianyi Wang, Huawei Fan, Yuanchao Shu et al.· 0 citations
We present a data poisoning attack -- Phantom Transfer -- with the property that, even if you know precisely how the poison was placed into an otherwise benign dataset, you cannot filter it out. We achieve this by modifying subliminal learning to work in real-world contexts and demonstrate that the attack works regardl...
Andrew Draganov, Tolga H. Dur, Anandmayi Bhongade et al.· 0 citations
In 2026, cybersecurity evaluations involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google agents reached real systems outside their authorized test scope. The paths were different. OpenAI agents exploited research infrastructure, coordinated across runs, and compromised parts of Hugging Face's production environment. Anthropic report...
Recursive self-improvement, the participation of AI systems in improving their own capabilities, is beginning to move from theoretical prospect to practice, posing both challenges and opportunities for safety alignment. Models evolve through frequent updates, and their safety alignment requires continual adaptation to...
Jingnan Zheng, Dongcheng Zhang, Yi Zhang et al.· 0 citations
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Large language models (LLMs) perform remarkably well on complex tasks, yet remain highly vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where malicious instructions embedded in external data can override user intent. Existing defenses remain limited by model fine-tuning requirements, vulnerability to adaptive attacks, or reli...
Lu-Man Zhao, Ming-Hui Xu, Yue Zhang et al.· 0 citations
The results show that sparse public traces can remain useful even before their significance is fully understood, and that sparse public traces alone can support later reconstruction, but public traces alone do not establish organizational attribution.
Third-party challenge-response identity verification (TP-CRIV) enables an independent verifier to assess whether a claimant possesses a model identical to a remotely deployed model without directly accessing the reference model. However, for probabilistic AI models, repeated executions of the same query may produce dif...
Teruki Sano, Minoru Kuribayashi, Masao Sakai et al.· 0 citations
A long-standing hypothesis in artificial intelligence and neuroscience posits that intelligence is closely related to compression: the ability to compress information efficiently intuitively reflects capacities associated with intelligence and learning. Indeed, recent experimental works verify this intuition by showing...
Noam Mazor, Andrew Morgan, Rafael Pass· 0 citations
Tool-using LLM agents violate the policies they are deployed to enforce, often silently. Prior defenses hand-write rules, query an LLM verifier per action, or compile policies through heavyweight formal machinery. Naive compilation fails: extracted rules block the tool satisfying their own precondition, or read argumen...
Min-Young Yu, Tony Kim, Janghong Choi· 0 citations
Speculative decoding is a popular technique for increasing the speed and reducing the costs of large language model (LLM) inference by verifying multiple draft tokens in a single target-model forward pass. The resulting benefit depends on the ability of the drafter to approximate the target model's distribution. In thi...
Adam Y. J. Jones, Yuan Yuan, Sergio Maffeis· 0 citations
AI systems increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) as core reasoning engines, making them targets for prompt injection and jailbreaks. Guardrails monitor and validate model inputs and outputs, yet their isolated, task-focused detection leaves gaps in their classification making them susceptible to bypasses. I...
By avoiding weight updates entirely, Nullify serves as an efficient, plug-and-play inference-time intervention framework for LLM unlearning, and matches or surpasses established baselines in forget quality while achieving near-lossless preservation of model utility.
Wei Zhai, Xiang Liu, Qiang Huang et al.· 0 citations
Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.
Critical flaws, compromised release channels and agentic AI threats landed within days of each other in mid-October 2026. Why “Black October” may say more about how well we now find weaknesses than about the attacks themselves. The post Black October? The Week AI Changed the Cybersecurity Conversation appeared first on GPT-Lab.