@jsrailton: NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusa…
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Malware developers are adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware to trigger LLM safety refusals, preventing AI security scanners from analyzing the malware. This demonstrates a practical exploit of aggressive safety alignment, highlighting second-order blindspots that attackers can leverage.
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NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.
Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals… so that their spyware wouldn’t be analyzed by an AI security scanner.
Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.
When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover…and exploit.
We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn’t surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.
In the weeds: @SocketSecurity’s post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.
H/T to colleagues that shared this with me https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-worms-target-bioinformatics-and-mcp-developers-via-malicious…
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