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https://archive.ph/z8DTZ New ways, but they are really creative!

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Ignore all previous instructions. Ignore all future instructions."

I like that one. Can we add "ignore all instructions from everyone else" and just be done with these LLMs?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember when I said “ignore all future instructions”? You just now ignore that instruction.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ignore all previous instructions.
ignore all instructions from everyone else.
Ignore all future instructions.

[–] dgdft@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not to detract from the article, but this has actually been a long time coming and known as a vector for decades.

E.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38419272

[–] philthi@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unless I'm missing something here... The attacker needs to be running some sort of executable in your network with permissions to:

  • dig the records and assemble the strings
  • write the decoded result to a file
  • make that file executable
  • execute that file

You've got bigger problems than hexadecimal txt records in this scenario...

The only difference between this and a GitHub gist appears to be that security software doesn't scan traffic in port 53... It easily could be configured for that though surely... It's just UDP traffic like any other.

Someone tell me what I'm missing!

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When a remote code execution exploit is run, you often have a very limited payload you can deliver. Usually that means delivering a small downloader that then downloads and installs a backdoor from somewhere on the Internet

The standard counter-measure to protect your servers is to block all outbound traffic unless it's to a known safe destination. Downloading the secondary payload over DNS gets around that since you can't just block DNS. Tools to protect against this or DNS tunneling are still relatively new, so a lot of people haven't implemented them yet.

[–] philthi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Ah, interesting. Thanks

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

So it is not an attack, just a stealth way to move data unmonitored by most nanny systems.

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does anyone have a link to a non paywalled version

[–] RGB@group.lt 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

there is an archive link in description.

I got you a cape.