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AI SecurityEmerging1 sourceJul 8, 2024 · 21:30via Embrace The Red (AI agent security)

Sorry, ChatGPT Is Under Maintenance: Persistent Denial of Service through Prompt Injection and Memory Attacks

Brief

Imagine you visit a website with ChatGPT, and suddenly, it stops working entirely!

In this post we show how an attacker can use prompt injection to cause a persistent denial of service that lasts across chat sessions for a user.

Hacking Memories

Previously we discussed how ChatGPT is vulnerable to automatic tool invocation of the memory tool . This can be used by an attacker during prompt injection to ingest malicious or fake memories into your ChatGPT.

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