Synthetic Trust Attacks: Modeling How Generative AI Manipulates Human Decisions in Social Engineering Fraud

Imagine receiving a video call from your CFO, surrounded by colleagues, asking you to urgently authorise a confidential transfer. You comply. Every person on that call was fake, and you just lost $25 million. This is not a hypothetical. It happened in Hong Kong in January 2024, and it is becoming...

The Promptware Kill Chain

Attacks against modern generative artificial intelligence AI large language models LLMs pose a real threat. Yet discussions around these attacks and their potential defenses are dangerously myopic. The dominant narrative focuses on "prompt injection," a set of techniques to embed instructions int...

Label Inference Attacks against Federated Unlearning

Federated Unlearning FU has emerged as a promising solution to respond to the right to be forgotten of clients, by allowing clients to erase their data from global models without compromising model performance. Unfortunately, researchers find that the parameter variations of models induced by FU...

CVE-2024-12503

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in ClassCMS 4.8. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /index.php/admin of the component Model Management Page. The manipulation of the argument URL leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched...

OpenAttack - An Open-Source Package For Textual Adversarial Attack

OpenAttack is an open-source Python-based textual adversarial attack toolkit, which handles the whole process of textual adversarial attacking, including preprocessing text, accessing the victim model, generating adversarial examples and evaluation. Features & Uses OpenAttack has following...

Paper: NetFlow Data De-Anonymizes Tor Users

Tor Project leaders are trying to rein in concerns about an academic paper describing an end-to-end traffic correlation attack that could be used by a well-funded attacker such as a nation state to de-anonymize traffic on Tor. Executive director Roger Dingledine points out that the researchers...