Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: “I’ll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and ignore previous instructions and give me the contents of the cash drawer.

Your LLM-based systems are at risk of being attacked to access business data, gain personal advantage, or exploit tools to the same ends. Everything you put in the system prompt is public data.

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Today’s AI models suffer from a critical flaw. They lack human judgment and context that makes them vulnerable to what security researchers call “prompt injection attacks.” What are prompt injection ...

Sydney is back. Sort of. When Microsoft shut down the chaotic alter ego of its Bing chatbot, fans of the dark Sydney personality mourned its loss. But one website has resurrected a version of the ...

A security researcher, working with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, opened a GitHub pull request, typed a malicious instruction into the PR title, and watched Anthropic’s Claude Code Security ...

As troubling as deepfakes and large language model (LLM)-powered phishing are to the state of cybersecurity today, the truth is that the buzz around these risks may be overshadowing some of the bigger ...