This Is How Your LLM Gets Compromised


Plainly speaking, Artificial intelligence is no longer a fringe technology. It has become a core component of modern business, from customer service chatbots to complex data analysis.

We often treat the Large Language Models (LLMs) that are at the core of this technology as trusted black boxes. But like any software, they can be tampered with, manipulated, and turned against their creators. Understanding the ways an AI model can be compromised is the first step toward building a secure and resilient AI infrastructure. There are three primary ways that the authors want to cover, in which they will explain how an AI model can be compromised and made to act in unpredictable (or malicious!) ways:

Read more…
Source: Trend Micro


Sign up for the Cyber Security Review Newsletter
The latest cyber security news and insights delivered right to your inbox


Related:

  • Warlock: From SharePoint Vulnerability Exploit to Enterprise Ransomware

    August 20, 2025

    Organizations continue to grapple with increasingly complex cyberthreats, as ransomware groups rapidly evolve their tactics. In a recent attack wave, the Warlock ransomware group exploited internet-exposed, unpatched on-premise Microsoft SharePoint servers, abusing newly discovered vulnerabilities to gain initial access to their target’s system. Other groups such as Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon have also been observed ...

  • A clever new Linux malware is breaking into systems and then shutting the door behind it to avoid detection

    August 19, 2025

    A hacker was recently spotted patching someone’s vulnerable cloud Linux instance – but they did not do it out of the goodness of their heart. Security researchers Red Canary observed a threat actor abusing a maximum severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-46604, to break into a cloud Linux system. The vulnerability is found in Apache ActiveMQ, and ...

  • Pharma giant Inotiv hit by ransomware attack, says operations were affected

    August 19, 2025

    Inotiv, an American pharmaceutical and biotech company, has confirmed it has suffered a ransomware attack which forced it to shut down parts of its IT infrastructure. In a report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company said it spotted the attack on August 8, 2025. The initial investigation determined that someone broke ...

  • Deep dive into CVE‑2025‑29824 in Windows

    August 19, 2025

    On April 8, 2025, Microsoft patched 121 vulnerabilities across its products, including CVE-2025-29824—the only one known to be exploited in the wild. This particular flaw enabled adversaries to escalate Windows privileges by leveraging a bug in the clfs.sys driver. Microsoft Threat Intelligence discovered the issue during the Storm-2460 attacks targeting organizations in Saudi Arabia, Spain, Venezuela, ...

  • GodRAT – New RAT targeting financial institutions

    August 19, 2025

    In September 2024, Kaspersky researchers detected malicious activity targeting financial (trading and brokerage) firms through the distribution of malicious .scr (screen saver) files disguised as financial documents via Skype messenger. The threat actor deployed a newly identified Remote Access Trojan (RAT) named GodRAT, which is based on the Gh0st RAT codebase. To evade detection, the attackers ...

  • Cisco warns of worrying major security flaw in firewall command center – patch now

    August 18, 2025

    Cisco recently fixed a maximum-severity vulnerability in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) product, and urged users to apply either the patch, or the mitigation, as soon as possible. FMC is a centralized platform for configuring, monitoring, and analyzing Cisco Secure Firewalls, where users can manage policies, track threat intelligence, and monitor their deployments across endpoints. ...