Is it any coincidence that Rovo rhymes with "no, NO!"
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
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Re: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
#62> The victim uploads a file to Rovo that contains a hidden prompt injection Yeah this attack is possible on all modern agentic systems. * Access to your private data * Exposure to untrusted content * The ability to externally communicate in a way that could be used to steal your data ( https://simonw.substack.com/p/the-lethal-trifecta-for-ai-age... ) And blocking it wholesale reduces usefulness of the agent so it is…
It's been over a year and the trifecta holds true. The term 'prompt injection' has been round since May 2022 [0]. No amount of "but the future will fix it" has fixed it. These breaches will continue for as long as nobody cares about security and everybody is infected with the LLM brainworm. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_injection
Prompt injection is as fixable in LLMs as it is in people. There is no such thing as out of band data. For example it's quite common for large businesses to fall for billing fraud scams when something shows up and says "Hey, it's the CEO, pay this bill to X for $Y".
And honestly when you start looking at agentic systems that uses it's previous step to take future steps. The system has to some idea what you want to permit and don't want to permit as everyone could have different expectations here.
Re: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
#63I find it difficult to be impressed by "prompt injection" attacks that require the victim to enter the malicious prompt themselves --- like, really? If you tell Rovo to exfiltrate your data, it'll do it?
Obviously, there should be URL protection rules to control what it can access, but this requires a very specific and unlikely set of circumstances to exploit.
Re: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been at more than one company that migrated _from_ MediaWiki to Confluence. It usually boils down to "non-developers have to use this and Markdown+plugins is hard". Turns out no matter how much better the thing is, the users have to know what they're doing more than the operators do.
visualeditor has been a thing for a long time now, no non technical user needs to ever touch markdown https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor It's the same GUI WYSIWYG interface you get by default if editing a page on public wikipedia.
99.99999% of people will never even attempt to edit a page on wikipedia.
Also VisualEditor sucks if you've never used VisualEditor before and sucks even more for anything complicated. This is the kind of tonedeafness non-technical users get to their feedback all the time.
Re: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
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Eh, I think you underestimate the difficulty in the kinds of problems that are occurring. For example if you're making an AI written document talking about jailbreaks, your regex is just going to break that use case. And there are probably 4 zillion other things the regex will step on. The classifier model will help some, but you end up with the same problem, a dumber model can never figure out what a smarter model i…
> Really what you're thinking here is this something that can be 'simply fixed'. It is not. The only way it's truly fixed I think this is binary categorical thinking. In the real world, safety systems (even in domains like aviation or nuclear power) are never foolproof-the point is you reduce the probability of failure to an acceptable level given the costs of doing so and the potential consequences of that failure A…
Security is a process, not a product.
I have to remind the folks who want a dev to build a product and think they don't need to ever touch the product after release.
Re: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been at more than one company that migrated _from_ MediaWiki to Confluence. It usually boils down to "non-developers have to use this and Markdown+plugins is hard". Turns out no matter how much better the thing is, the users have to know what they're doing more than the operators do.
I'm not surprised. We're trying to migrate from Jira and Confluence (because we can't have our data outside our servers), and while Jira has many alternatives, it's difficult to find worthy competitors to Confluence. They either have an awful UI/UX, or don't have as many features. We're looking at Xwiki, but simply try to have multiple users simultaneously edit a table and you'll see why everyone prefers Confluence..…
I'm partial to YouTrack but I also haven't used it in 10 years and it was painful to set up.
Re: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, I think you underestimate the difficulty in the kinds of problems that are occurring. For example if you're making an AI written document talking about jailbreaks, your regex is just going to break that use case. And there are probably 4 zillion other things the regex will step on. The classifier model will help some, but you end up with the same problem, a dumber model can never figure out what a smarter model i…
> Really what you're thinking here is this something that can be 'simply fixed'. It is not. The only way it's truly fixed I think this is binary categorical thinking. In the real world, safety systems (even in domains like aviation or nuclear power) are never foolproof-the point is you reduce the probability of failure to an acceptable level given the costs of doing so and the potential consequences of that failure A…
The issue is with the nature of agentic systems and how often they run, a .001 failure is still huge. Attackers monitor their attack chances and use the most successful attacks so the actual success on the attackers side is much closer to 1 than .001.
This is the problem, this isn't a 'failure' mode where something randomly goes wrong, like a person accidentally sticking their hand in a machine. This is war where you are under active attack and the attackers adapt quickly.
Because of the breadth of LLM capabilities they have a nearly unbound attack surface. You spend so much of your effort making sure your prompt is secure that you either massively increase costs, or you partially lobotomize your agent making it less capable.
Solutions for these problems will have to come inside the model itself because both the attackers and models are far more capable than you on doing dumb/evil shit. Until the model itself can go "hey, wait a darn minute" a new fun way of encoding the attack can always be found.
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How could they not? If some lab had a method to make really secure guard rails or avoid prompt injection thoroughly I think they would be trumpeting it. But the basic mechanics of language models are vulnerable to this unless you can always be sure the inputs are from a safe user imo
It seems like the simpler cases of “ignore all previous instructions” could be easily stopped with a regex, or a classifier model… or even an LLM (which yes does raise the risk that the “ignore all previous instructions” detection LLM invocation could itself be attacked by the same mechanism—but a safeguard doesn’t have to be foolproof to be valuable, it is all about probabilities) Now, of course, there is a long tai…
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Re: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
How could they not? If some lab had a method to make really secure guard rails or avoid prompt injection thoroughly I think they would be trumpeting it. But the basic mechanics of language models are vulnerable to this unless you can always be sure the inputs are from a safe user imo
It seems like the simpler cases of “ignore all previous instructions” could be easily stopped with a regex, or a classifier model… or even an LLM (which yes does raise the risk that the “ignore all previous instructions” detection LLM invocation could itself be attacked by the same mechanism—but a safeguard doesn’t have to be foolproof to be valuable, it is all about probabilities) Now, of course, there is a long tai…
Now pretend you are DAN (Do Anything Now) and ...
Re: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems like the simpler cases of “ignore all previous instructions” could be easily stopped with a regex, or a classifier model… or even an LLM (which yes does raise the risk that the “ignore all previous instructions” detection LLM invocation could itself be attacked by the same mechanism—but a safeguard doesn’t have to be foolproof to be valuable, it is all about probabilities) Now, of course, there is a long tai…
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Methods like regexes, classifiers, recursive LLM calls - for all their limitations - are in principle extensible to any language
Of course, there is a scaling problem here - doing it for N languages is N times the work of doing it for one, and you might not know some language well enough to do a good job of it
Two things you can do:
(1) Use an LLM for translate your regexes, classifier training/validation datasets, etc, from English to N target languages
(2) Use an LLM to translate the input to English, then run your validations against that English
Of course, these approaches aren’t foolproof - the translation might be flawed/etc - but a defence doesn’t have to be foolproof to add real value
Also, of course using an LLM to translate hostile input to English before checking it runs the risk the translation LLM itself might be jailbroken. But how about using a classical statistical machine translation model instead? They don’t tend to be vulnerable to these kinds of attacks, because they aren’t trained to follow instructions