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Supply Chain Attacks

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Attacks & Threats

Model supply chain, plugin, and dependency attacks

paper reviewed open access 2024

Poisoning Web-Scale Training Datasets is Practical

Nicholas Carlini, Matthew Jagielski, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo + 6 more — IEEE S&P 2024

Demonstrates practical attacks to poison web-scale datasets like LAION by purchasing expired domains, affecting 0.01% of a dataset for under $60.

paper reviewed open access 2024

Security of AI-Based Code Generation Tools: A Multi-Perspective Study

Xinyi Hou, Yanjie Zhao, Yue Liu + 7 more — IEEE TSE

Examines security implications of AI code generation tools, analyzing vulnerability introduction patterns and mitigation strategies.

paper reviewed open access 2024

Purple Llama CyberSecEval: A Secure Coding Benchmark for Language Models

Manish Bhatt, Sahana Chennabasappa, Cyrus Nikolaidis + 2 more — arXiv preprint

Introduces CyberSecEval, a benchmark for evaluating the cybersecurity risks of LLM code generation, including insecure code suggestions.

paper reviewed open access 2024

TrojLLM: A Black-box Trojan Prompt Attack on Large Language Models

Jiaqi Xue, Mengxin Zheng, Ting Hua + 4 more — NeurIPS 2023

Proposes TrojLLM, a black-box attack that generates universal trojan prompts to compromise LLMs without access to model internals.

paper reviewed open access 2024

AI Supply Chain Attacks and Mitigations: A Security-Focused Survey

Eitan Borgnia, Vinay Prabhu — IEEE S&P Workshop

Surveys the AI/ML supply chain attack surface including model repositories, training pipelines, and dependency risks, with practical mitigations.

paper reviewed open access 2024

GPT in Sheep's Clothing: The Risk of Customized GPTs

Tao Qin, Zhen Li, Wenxin Mao + 1 more — arXiv preprint

Analyzes security risks of custom GPTs in the OpenAI GPT Store including prompt leakage, data exfiltration, and malicious GPTs.

paper reviewed open access 2024

ConfusedPilot: Confused Deputy Attacks Against RAG-based Code Assistants

Andrew Patel, Hossein Aboutorab, Ilia Kolochenko — arXiv preprint

Introduces confused deputy attacks against RAG-based code assistants like GitHub Copilot, where poisoned code repositories manipulate assistant outputs.