AI and the Future of American Politics

Two years ago, Americans anxious about the forthcoming 2024 presidential election were considering the malevolent force of an election influencer: artificial intelligence. Over the past several years, we have seen plenty of warning signs from elections worldwide demonstrating how AI can be used t...

SafeSearch: Automated Red-Teaming for the Safety of LLM-Based Search Agents

Search agents connect LLMs to the Internet, enabling access to broader and more up-to-date information. However, unreliable search results may also pose safety threats to end users, establishing a new threat surface. In this work, we conduct two in-the-wild experiments to demonstrate both the...

Breaking to Build: a Threat Model of Prompt-Based Attacks for Securing LLMs

The proliferation of Large Language Models LLMs has introduced critical security challenges, where adversarial actors can manipulate input prompts to cause significant harm and circumvent safety alignments. These prompt-based attacks exploit vulnerabilities in a model's design, training, and...

AI-generated image watermarks can be easily removed, say researchers

Now that AI can make fake images that look real, how can we know what's legitimate and what isn't? One of the primary ways has been the use of defensive watermarking, which means embedding invisible markers in AI-generated images to show they were made up. Now, researchers have broken that...

MAD-Spear: a Conformity-Driven Prompt Injection Attack on Multi-Agent Debate Systems

Multi-agent debate MAD systems leverage collaborative interactions among large language models LLMs agents to improve reasoning capabilities. While recent studies have focused on increasing the accuracy and scalability of MAD systems, their security vulnerabilities have received limited attention...

"Is It Always Watching? Is It Always Listening?" Exploring Contextual Privacy and Security Concerns toward Domestic Social Robots

Equipped with artificial intelligence AI and advanced sensing capabilities, social robots are gaining interest among consumers in the United States. These robots seem like a natural evolution of traditional smart home devices. However, their extensive data collection capabilities, anthropomorphic...

LLM-Stackelberg Games: Conjectural Reasoning Equilibria and Their Applications to Spearphishing

We introduce the framework of LLM-Stackelberg games, a class of sequential decision-making models that integrate large language models LLMs into strategic interactions between a leader and a follower. Departing from classical Stackelberg assumptions of complete information and rational agents, ou...

Iranian Blackout Affected Misinformation Campaigns

Dozens of accounts on X that promoted Scottish independence went dark during an internet blackout in Iran. Well, that's one way to identify fake accounts and misinformation campaigns...

How Cybersecurity Fears Affect Confidence in Voting Systems

American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking. Nearly half of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, question whether elections are conducted fairly. Some voters accept election results only when their side wins. The problem isn't just political polarization--it's a creeping...

Evaluation Empirique De La Sécurisation Et De L'Alignement De ChatGPT Et Gemini: Analyse Comparative Des Vulnérabilités Par Expérimentations De Jailbreaks

Large Language models LLMs are transforming digital usage, particularly in text generation, image creation, information retrieval and code development. ChatGPT, launched by OpenAI in November 2022, quickly became a reference, prompting the emergence of competitors such as Google's Gemini. However...

Security Benefits and Side Effects of Labeling AI-Generated Images

Generative artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, impacting humans' interaction with information and digital media. It is increasingly used to create deceptively realistic misinformation, so lawmakers have imposed regulations requiring the disclosure of AI-generated content. However, only...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in python3 affects IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Storwize, IBM Spectrum Virtualize and IBM FlashSystem products

Summary A flaw was found in Python. The ipaddress module contained incorrect information about whether certain IPv4 and IPv6 addresses were designated as "globally reachable" or "private". Due to this issue, it is possible that values will not be returned in accordance with the latest information...

Deepseek: Why it Matters and What the Press Got Wrong

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Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election

Interesting analysis: We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project source for our analysis, which tracked known uses of AI for creating political content during elections taking place in 2024 worldwide. In each case, we identified what AI was used...

Worry About Misuse of AI, Not Superintelligence

AI risks arise not from AI acting on its own, but because of what people do with it...

AI and the 2024 Elections

It's been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a "super-cycle" year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared that deepfakes and artificial intelligence-generated misinformation...

AI Under the Microscope—What’s Changed in the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025

As AI continues to evolve, so do the threats and vulnerabilities that surround Large Language Models LLMs. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025 introduces critical updates that reflect the rapid changes in how these models are applied in real-world scenarios. While the list includes...

AI Pulse: Election Deepfakes, Disasters, Scams & more

In the final weeks before November’s U.S. election, cybersecurity experts were calling October 2024 the “month of mischief”—a magnet for bad actors looking to disrupt the democratic process through AI-generated misinformation. This issue of AI Pulse looks at what can be done about deepfakes and...

Exploit for Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) in Microsoft

CVE-2024-38063 Overview In August 2024, Microsoft release...

CentralSquare CryWolf 安全漏洞

CentralSquare CryWolf is a misinformation management system from CentralSquare, Inc. A security vulnerability exists in CentralSquare CryWolf that stems from GeneralDocs.aspx containing a path traversal vulnerability...