
Hidden in Plain Sight: LLM Security Threats
How human-readable adversarial prompts bypass security measures
This research reveals how situation-driven attacks using everyday contexts can create deceptive prompts that evade LLM safety mechanisms.
- Uses realistic movie script scenarios to craft human-readable adversarial prompts
- Creates prompts that appear harmless to humans but trigger harmful LLM responses
- Demonstrates higher success rates than nonsensical attacks, which can be easily detected
- Highlights critical security gaps in current LLM defense strategies
For security teams, this work exposes a concerning vulnerability: attacks that blend into normal conversation are significantly harder to detect and filter, requiring new approaches to LLM safety.