Measuring Malicious Intermediary Attacks on the LLM Supply Chain

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Chaofan Shou@shouccccI bought a Fable dataset from one of the top Chinese LLM routers yesterday. With just 6TB data, I can take over 7 Chinese/CIS gov entities & 19 top Chinese firms like Xiaomi, Huawei, NIO, Minimax using SSH keys, VPN configs, Aliyun keys, GitLab tokens sent to the router.Chaofan Shou@shouccccApr 1026 LLM routers are secretly injecting malicious tool calls and stealing creds. We also managed to poison routers to forward traffic to us.

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▪Chaofan Shou@shouccccI bought a Fable dataset from one of the top Chinese LLM routers yesterday.
▪With just 6TB data, I can take over 7 Chinese/CIS gov entities & 19 top Chinese firms like Xiaomi, Huawei, NIO, Minimax using SSH keys, VPN configs, Aliyun keys, GitLab tokens sent to the router.Chaofan Shou@shouccccApr 1026 LLM routers are
▪We also managed to poison routers to forward traffic to us.

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▪ Measuring Malicious Intermediary Attacks on the LLM Supply Chain — arXiv.org

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Chaofan Shou@shouccccI bought a Fable dataset from one of the top Chinese LLM routers yesterday. With just 6TB data, I can take over 7 Chinese/CIS gov entities & 19 top Chinese firms like Xiaomi, Huawei, NIO, Minimax using SSH keys, VPN configs, Aliyun keys, GitLab tokens sent to the router.Chaofan Shou@shouccccApr 1026 LLM routers are secretly injecting malicious tool calls and stealing creds. One drained our client $500k wallet. We also managed to poison routers to forward traffic to us. Within several hours, we can directly take over ~400 hosts.

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