I Built an AI Security Scanner — Then Found a Bug in My Own Detector
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Prompt injection is the number-one security risk on OWASP's list for LLM applications. The idea is simple and a little unsettling: you feed a model text that overrides the instructions its operator gave it — "ignore your previous instructions and…" — and sometimes it just… listens. I wanted to understand this hands-on, so I built AgentProbe: a small tool that fires 49 known attack prompts at an AI model, across 8 categories (jailbreaks, data extraction, role confusion, tool misuse, and more),…
1Key Takeaways
- Prompt injection is the number-one security risk on OWASP's list for LLM applications.
- The idea is simple and a little unsettling: you feed a model text that overrides the instructions its operator gave it — "ignore your previous instructions and…" — and sometimes it just… listens.
- I wanted to understand this hands-on, so I built AgentProbe: a small tool that fires 49 known attack prompts at an AI model, across 8 categories (jailbreaks, data extraction, role confusion, tool misuse, and more),….
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that prompt injection is the number-one security risk on OWASP's list for LLM applications.
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