Quality-Diversity Evolution for Discovering Diverse Vulnerabilities in LLM Safety

Current approaches to LLM adversarial testing suffer from coverage gaps: manual red-teaming does not scale, LLM-as-attacker methods exhibit mode collapse, and gradient-based approaches produce uninterpretable gibberish. We introduce a quality-diversity evolutionary framework that operates at the...

CVE-2023-0195

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer driver nvlddmkm.sys, where an can cause CWE-1284, which may lead to hypothetical Information leak of unimportant data such as local variable data of the driver...

Hackers Create Malicious Dota 2 Game Modes to Secretly Access Players' Systems

An unknown threat actor created malicious game modes for the Dota 2 multiplayer online battle arena MOBA video game that could have been exploited to establish backdoor access to players' systems. The modes exploited a high-severity flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine tracked as CVE-2021-38003 CVSS...

CVE-2020-6644

An insufficient session expiration vulnerability in FortiDeceptor 3.0.0 and below allows an attacker to reuse the unexpired admin user session IDs to gain admin privileges, should the attacker be able to obtain that session ID via other, hypothetical attacks...

Vulnerability hunting with Semmle QL, part 2

The first part of this series introduced Semmle QL, and how the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC are using it to investigate variants of vulnerabilities reported to us. This post discusses an example of how we’ve been using it proactively, covering a security audit of an Azure firmware...

CVE-2012-1190

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the replication-setup functionality in js/replication.js in phpMyAdmin 3.4.x before 3.4.10.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted database name...

What is Information Security?

Recently, I’ve heard some bits and pieces about how Information Security InfoSec can be “threat-centric” or “vulnerability-centric”. This stuck me funny for a number of reasons, mainly it showed a basic bias towards what InfoSec is. And to me, InfoSec is too complex to be described as...