Attackers are adept at using new technologies to enhance their attacks. Earlier this afternoon, for example, I got call from “American Express” suggesting that I needed to “verify a transaction.” The caller used a robotic voice similar to the one used by American Express’ automated systems, and only obvious signals that it was a scamContinue reading “Attack Technique: AI Clones”
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AI Injection Attacks
A hot infosec topic these days is “How can we prevent abuse of AI agents?” While AI introduces awesome new capabilities, it also entails an enormous set of risks from the obvious and mundane to the esoteric and elaborate. As a browser security person, I’m most often asked about indirect prompt injection attacks, whereby aContinue reading “AI Injection Attacks”
Vibe-coding for security
Recently, there’s been a surge in the popularity of trojan clipboard attacks whereby the attacker convinces the user to carry their attack payload across a security boundary and compromise the device. Meanwhile, AI hype is all the rage. I recent had a bad experience in what I thought was a simple AI task (draw aContinue reading “Vibe-coding for security”