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Brandon Dixon

Brandon Dixon

Brandon is a cybersecurity expert currently leading Security Copilot at Microsoft. He is known for creating PassiveTotal, Blockade.io, NinjaJobs, PDF X-Ray, and other opensource tools

Last Week in GAI Security Research - 02/03/25

Last Week in GAI Security Research - 02/03/25

Highlights from Last Week * 🎩 Illusions of Relevance: Using Content Injection Attacks to Deceive Retrievers, Rerankers, and LLM Judges * 🌐 On the Feasibility of Using LLMs to Execute Multistage Network Attacks * 🦄 Comparing Human and LLM Generated Code: The Jury is Still Out! * 🏛 Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours

Beans to Bots: Hacking My Coffee Machine with AI

Beans to Bots: Hacking My Coffee Machine with AI

This post is not sponsored in any form. Speciality coffee has been in my life for over a decade. What used to be near-impossible to find is now commonplace, even in chains like Starbucks. Over the years, I've roasted coffee, formed a business around it and quested for

Last Week in GAI Security Research - 01/27/25

Last Week in GAI Security Research - 01/27/25

Highlights from Last Week * 🧑‍🔧️ An Empirically-grounded tool for Automatic Prompt Linting and Repair: A Case Study on Bias, Vulnerability, and Optimization in Developer Prompts * 🎶 Tune In, Act Up: Exploring the Impact of Audio Modality-Specific Edits on Large Audio Language Models in Jailbreak * 🦺 Can Safety Fine-Tuning Be More Principled? Lessons Learned

Last Week in GAI Security Research - 01/20/25

Last Week in GAI Security Research - 01/20/25

Highlights from Last Week * 😡 AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages * 🧙 Gandalf the Red: Adaptive Security for LLMs * 🧭 I Can Find You in Seconds! Leveraging Large Language Models for Code Authorship Attribution * 🗳 Exploring and Mitigating Adversarial Manipulation of Voting-Based Leaderboards Partner Content Pillar

Running in Circles: Security Insights from a Treadmill

Running in Circles: Security Insights from a Treadmill

I run ultramarathons, so I run often and sometimes end up indoors when conditions aren’t ideal or I need to juggle family needs. When running inside, I use a Nordictrack X22i, which is a wonderful piece of equipment but is limited to the built-in iFit application and nothing more;

Last Week in GAI Security Research - 01/13/25

Last Week in GAI Security Research - 01/13/25

Highlights from Last Week * 📝 A survey of textual cyber abuse detection using cutting-edge language models and large language models * 🪲 Exploring Large Language Models for Semantic Analysis and Categorization of Android Malware * 📦 FlipedRAG: Black-Box Opinion Manipulation Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation of Large Language Models * 🌊 RAG-WM: An Efficient Black-Box Watermarking Approach for

Last Week in GAI Security Research - 01/06/25

Last Week in GAI Security Research - 01/06/25

Highlights from Last Week * 🌨 Toward Intelligent and Secure Cloud: Large Language Model Empowered Proactive Defense * ♠️ SPADE: Enhancing Adaptive Cyber Deception Strategies with Generative AI and Structured Prompt Engineering * 🎼 On the Validity of Traditional Vulnerability Scoring Systems for Adversarial Attacks against LLMs * 🔒 TrustRAG: Enhancing Robustness and Trustworthiness in RAG * 😎 SafeSynthDP: Leveraging