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Cordyceps: Covert Control Attacks on LLMs via Data Poisoning

arXiv:2605. 26595v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are often fine-tuned on uncurated text datasets that adversaries can poison.

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Jul 29

ToxScreen: Detecting Whether an LLM Has Been Poisoned

As large language models (LLMs) are deployed in high-stakes domains, adversaries may poison training data to implant backdoors: hidden triggers that covertly manipulate model behavior at inference time. We ask whether a defender can recover such a trigger under realistic affordances, namely white-box access to the weights and knowledge of the behavior of concern, but no training data, no trusted reference model, no knowledge of the trigger, and no certainty that the model is poisoned.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

ToxScreen: Detecting Whether an LLM Has Been Poisoned

arXiv:2607. 26849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are deployed in high-stakes domains, adversaries may poison training data to implant backdoors: hidden triggers that covertly manipulate model behavior at inference time.

By Anthony Hughes, Nicole Xing, Collin Francel, Andy Kim, Andrew Draganov
arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

From ASR to ASP: Evaluating Prompt Attack Vulnerabilities Against Open-Source LLMs

The paper investigates prompt injection attacks on 14 open‑source and 3 closed‑source large language models (LLMs), introducing a new metric called Attack Success Probability (ASP) that accounts for uncertainty in model responses. It demonstrates that a simple hypnotism attack can trigger objectionable behavior in models such as StableLM2, Mistral, Openchat, and Vicuna, achieving roughly 90% ASP. The study highlights that moderately well‑known LLMs are particularly vulnerable, underscoring the importance of public awareness and effective mitigation strategies.

By Jiawen Wang, Pritha Gupta, Eyke H\"ullermeier, Xiaoxue Gao, Nancy F. Chen