Dec. 22, 2023, 12:05 p.m. | Bruce Schneier

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Interesting attack on a LLM:


In Writer, users can enter a ChatGPT-like session to edit or create their documents. In this chat session, the LLM can retrieve information from sources on the web to assist users in creation of their documents. We show that attackers can prepare websites that, when a user adds them as a source, manipulate the LLM into sending private information to the attacker or perform other malicious activities.


The data theft can include documents the user …

attack attackers chat chatgpt data data exfiltration documents edit exfiltration information injection llm prepare prompt prompt injection session the web vulnerabilities web websites writer

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