The paper introduces MemJack, a memory‑augmented multi‑agent framework that automatically generates jailbreak attacks on Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) using benign natural images as visual anchors. MemJack discovers visual anchors, camouflages them semantically, evaluates responses, repairs via reflection, and replans dynamically, forming a closed‑loop attack pipeline. The authors also create MemJack‑Bench, a dataset of over 113,000 interactive multimodal jailbreak trajectories, and show that MemJack achieves a 71.48% attack success rate against Qwen3‑VL‑Plus, reaching 90% under extended budgets, outperforming other baselines on natural‑image evaluation.
arXiv:2602.08136v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are now a core part of modern AI. Recent work proposed several visual jailbreak attacks using single/ holistic...
DiSCO is a zero‑shot, black‑box defense for text‑to‑image models that operates solely at the prompt level. It expands prompts with a distribution‑guided suffix using beam search and contrastive scoring against safe and unsafe image pools generated by the target model, iteratively refining until safe content is produced. The method improves safety on the I2P benchmark under various red‑teaming attacks, reducing attack success rates by 37.7% and 25.13% while preserving semantic fidelity and image coherence.
The safety of large vision-language models is increasingly stress-tested by multimodal jailbreaks, yet existing attacks remain largely static at the meta level: template-based attacks freeze the image...
arXiv:2602. 10179v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in large image editing models have shifted the paradigm from text-driven instructions to vision-prompt editing, where user intent is inferred directly from visual inputs such as marks, arrows, and visual-text prompts.
The paper introduces Meta-Adaptive Multimodal Jailbreaking (MAMJ), a method that jointly optimizes an attack strategy prompt and attacker weights to generate more effective jailbreaks against vision‑language models. Using an LLM‑based critique to refine the strategy and group‑level success‑rate rewards to update the weights, MAMJ achieves high attack success rates on MM‑SafetyBench, outperforming existing baselines by up to 24.1 percentage points. The learned attacker also transfers to unseen models and remains robust against typical defenses, highlighting a systemic vulnerability in current VLMs.
arXiv:2604. 05853v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern text-to-image (T2I) models can now render legible, paragraph-length text, enabling a fundamentally new class of misuse.
arXiv:2511.18921v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Backdoor attacks undermine the reliability and trustworthiness of machine learning systems by injecting hidden behaviors that can be maliciously ac...
arXiv:2609.14258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreaks that distribute harmful intent across text and images, making unimodal safety mechanisms...
arXiv:2607. 15657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal AI agents increasingly rely on persistent long-term memory to ground generation in past visual and textual episodes.
Recent advancements in Image-to-Video (I2V) generation have transformed input images from simple appearance references into interactive control interfaces where visual cues such as arrows, sketches, and emojis orchestrate complex video dynamics with unprecedented controllability. However, these seemingly innocuous static cues can be interpreted by models as executable temporal instructions, unfolding into harmful actions in the generated videos.
The paper introduces NarrativeAttack, a jailbreak framework that exploits unified multimodal models (UMMs) by embedding a malicious query within a self‑contained three‑act visual narrative. The attack uses the model’s own image generator to create setup and resolution images, hiding the malicious event as a hidden climax, and concludes with an image‑based guessing game that forces the model to select the relevant answer. Experiments demonstrate that NarrativeAttack outperforms previous methods, achieving up to 88.25% attack success rate on Gemini‑2.5‑Flash, revealing a significant safety vulnerability in UMMs.
arXiv:2609.38899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Multimodal Large Language Models (Video-MLLMs) support reasoning over video inputs, yet remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that elicit poli...