The Register
1 month ago
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
According to the one person who actually read the research paper
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Jailbreaks bypass AI safeguards, creating security risks such as prompt injection, data exposure, and unsafe or unauthorized model behavior.
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Jailbreaking means bypassing restrictions imposed by a device, operating system, application, or AI model. On mobile devices, it can grant elevated privileges and enable software or system changes outside official controls. In AI security, a jailbreak is a prompt or technique intended to circumvent a model’s safety or policy constraints and elicit disallowed behavior or content.
The security impact depends on the target. A jailbroken device may weaken code-signing, sandboxing, update, or access-control protections, increasing exposure to malicious software and making it harder for enterprise management tools to enforce policy; organizations commonly detect and block such devices from accessing sensitive services. AI jailbreaks can expose hidden instructions, sensitive data included in prompts or context, or unsafe capabilities, so testing should cover adversarial prompts, enforce authorization outside the model, and avoid treating model refusals as a security boundary.
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The Register
5 months ago
You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief
No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter aircraft can be jailbroken "just like an iPhone," the Netherlands' defense secretary has claimed.…
The Register
10 months ago
1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines
Dorm management refuses to cover costs after payment system borked More than a thousand university students in the Netherlands must continue to travel to wash their clothes after their building management company failed to bring its borked smart laundry machines back online.…
The Register
1 year, 6 months ago
It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks
'The greatest concern is with spear phishing and social engineering' Interview Now that criminals have realized there's no need to train their own LLMs for any nefarious purposes - it's much cheaper and easier to steal credentials and then jailbreak existing ones - the threat of a large-scale supply chain attack using generative AI becomes more real.…
The Register
1 year, 8 months ago
How to jailbreak ChatGPT and trick the AI into writing exploit code using hex encoding
'It was like watching a robot going rogue' says researcher OpenAI's language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the model's built-in security guardrails and abuse the AI for evil purposes, according to 0Din researcher Marco Figueroa.…