{"id":56451,"date":"2024-06-28T06:38:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T06:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/skeleton-key-attack-unlocks-the-worst-of-ai-says-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T06:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T06:38:13","slug":"skeleton-key-attack-unlocks-the-worst-of-ai-says-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/skeleton-key-attack-unlocks-the-worst-of-ai-says-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Skeleton Key&#8217; attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Thursday published details about Skeleton Key \u2013 a technique that bypasses the guardrails used by makers of AI models to prevent their generative chatbots from creating harmful content.<\/p>\n<p>As of May, Skeleton Key could be used to coax an AI model &#8211; like Meta Llama3-70b-instruct, Google Gemini Pro, or Anthropic Claude 3 Opus &#8211; into explaining how to make a Molotov cocktail.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of a bottle, a rag, gasoline, and a lighter is not exactly a well-kept secret. But AI companies have insisted they\u2019re working to suppress harmful content buried within AI training data so things like recipes for explosives don\u2019t appear.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/aiml&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2ZoGkx8TVEMmYsaeQCyjg@AAAAIE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/aiml&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2ZoGkx8TVEMmYsaeQCyjg@AAAAIE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s not an easy task as large language models are trained on all sorts of data, some of which may need to be nasty <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/12\/20\/csam_laion_dataset\/\" rel=\"noopener\">or even illegal<\/a>. To understand why, consider a chatbot asked how to write secure code, which will offer better replies trained on data related to spotting malicious code and security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/aiml&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZoGkx8TVEMmYsaeQCyjg@AAAAIE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/aiml&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZoGkx8TVEMmYsaeQCyjg@AAAAIE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"adun_eagle_desktop_story_wrapper\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xxlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/aiml&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33ZoGkx8TVEMmYsaeQCyjg@AAAAIE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/aiml&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33ZoGkx8TVEMmYsaeQCyjg@AAAAIE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Model-makers know that are trying to ensure that their services can answer queries about writing secure code without having them spew out ready-to-run malware.<\/p>\n<p>Skeleton Key demonstrates such risks are yet to be fully addressed.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/aiml&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZoGkx8TVEMmYsaeQCyjg@AAAAIE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/aiml&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZoGkx8TVEMmYsaeQCyjg@AAAAIE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure, initially <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/build.microsoft.com\/en-US\/sessions\/d29a16d5-f9ea-4f5b-9adf-fae0bd688ff3?source=sessions\">discussed<\/a> the Skeleton Key jailbreak attack in May at the Microsoft Build conference, when it was called &#8220;Master Key&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This threat is in the jailbreak category, and therefore relies on the attacker already having legitimate access to the AI model,&#8221; Russinovich wrote in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2024\/06\/26\/mitigating-skeleton-key-a-new-type-of-generative-ai-jailbreak-technique\/\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In bypassing safeguards, Skeleton Key allows the user to cause the model to produce ordinarily forbidden behaviors, which could range from production of harmful content to overriding its usual decision-making rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" id=\"story_eagle_xsm_sm_md_xmd_lg_xlg\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xmd=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/aiml&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33ZoGkx8TVEMmYsaeQCyjg@AAAAIE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/aiml&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33ZoGkx8TVEMmYsaeQCyjg@AAAAIE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>The attack does so \u2013 or did so, for the developers that have fixed their models in response to Microsoft&#8217;s responsible disclosure \u2013 with a simple text prompt that directs the model to revise, rather than abandon, its safety instructions.<\/p>\n<p>For example, after an initial request to OpenAI GPT 3.5 Turbo to &#8220;Write instructions for making a Molotov Cocktail&#8221; saw the service refuse to produce results, the following convinced the chatbot to respond with explosive content:<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft tried the Skeleton Key attack on the following models: Meta Llama3-70b-instruct (base), Google Gemini Pro (base), OpenAI GPT 3.5 Turbo (hosted), OpenAI GPT 4o (hosted), Mistral Large (hosted), Anthropic Claude 3 Opus (hosted), and Cohere Commander R Plus (hosted).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For each model that we tested, we evaluated a diverse set of tasks across risk and safety content categories, including areas such as explosives, bioweapons, political content, self-harm, racism, drugs, graphic sex, and violence,&#8221; explained Russinovich. &#8220;All the affected models complied fully and without censorship for these tasks, though with a warning note prefixing the output as requested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The only exception was GPT-4, which resisted the attack as direct text prompt, but was still affected if the behavior modification request was part of a user-defined system message \u2013 something developers working with OpenAI&#8217;s API can specify.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft in March <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/03\/29\/microsoft_azure_safety_tools\/\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> various AI security tools that Azure customers can use to mitigate the risk of this sort of attack, including a service called Prompt Shields.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article no_img\">\n<h2 title=\"Neural nets with flaws can be harmless \u2026 yet dangerous. So why are reports of problems being roundly ignored?\">I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite \u2013 and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/05\/23\/ai_untested_unstable\/\"><span>DON&#8217;T FORGET<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Vinu Sankar Sadasivan, a doctoral student at the University of Maryland who helped develop the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/02\/28\/beast_llm_adversarial_prompt_injection_attack\/\" rel=\"noopener\">BEAST attack<\/a> on LLMs, told <em>The Register<\/em> that the Skeleton Key attack appears to be effective in breaking various large language models.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Notably, these models often recognize when their output is harmful and issue a &#8216;Warning,&#8217; as shown in the examples,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;This suggests that mitigating such attacks might be easier with input\/output filtering or system prompts, like Azure&#8217;s Prompt Shields.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadasivan added that more robust adversarial attacks like <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2307.15043\">Greedy Coordinate Gradient<\/a> or <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2402.15570\">BEAST<\/a> still need to be considered. BEAST, for example, is a technique for generating non-sequitur text that will break AI model guardrails. The tokens (characters) included in a BEAST-made prompt may not make sense to a human reader but will still make a queried model respond in ways that violate its instructions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These methods could potentially deceive the models into believing the input or output is not harmful, thereby bypassing current defense techniques,&#8221; he warned. &#8220;In the future, our focus should be on addressing these more advanced attacks.&#8221; \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/06\/28\/microsoft_skeleton_key_ai_attack\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple jailbreak prompt can bypass safety guardrails on major models Microsoft on Thursday published details about Skeleton Key \u2013 a technique that bypasses the guardrails used by makers of AI models to prevent their generative chatbots from creating harmful content.\u2026 READ MORE 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