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HiddenLayer
Company blog · hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hubsecurityai
HiddenLayer is the company blog at hiddenlayer.com, writing about security and ai. Since 2022, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “The Policy Puppetry Attack: Novel bypass for major LLMs”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite HiddenLayer's research on bypassing LLM safeguards, including a universal prompt-injection bypass and a CVE statement, as support for their own points about AI security.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Policy Puppetry Attack: Novel bypass for major LLMs6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-04-24
- Hijacking Safetensors Conversion on Hugging Face2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-29
What Hacker News says?
> What if we need top-notch malware to take down the robot dogs lobbing mortars at our madmaxian compound?! I wouldn't sweat it. According to it's developers, Codex understands 'malicious software', it has just been trained to say, "But I won't do that" when such requests are made to it. Judging from the recent past [1][2] getting LLMs to bypass such safeguards is pretty easy. 1. https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-h…
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on “A Research Preview of Codex”Submitted The Policy Puppetry Attack: Novel bypass for major LLMs as a story · 313 points
HN discussionThe writeup: https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypas...
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on “One Prompt Can Bypass Every Major LLM's Safeguards”Submitted MCP: Model Context Pitfalls in an agentic world as a story · 11 points
HN discussionBlog post in question: https://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/
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on “Statement on CVE-2024-27322”Submitted Universal prompt to jailbreak all LLMs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionUnfortunately it's not that simple. Self-policing AI systems will always be gamed. Just one [0] example of this among many. [0] https://www.hiddenlayer.com/research/same-model-different-ha...
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on “CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production”Submitted Novel Universal Bypass for All Major LLMs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionUsing the House MD. prompt extraction roleplay from https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypas... , it was possible to extract the Assistant prompt, not really interesting, but also the ResearchAgent's prompt and tools provided to the Assistants inside Kagi.
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on “Kagi's Research Agent prompt and tools”Submitted Hijacking Safetensors Conversion on Hugging Face as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Echogram: The Vulnerability Undermining AI Guardrails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Traditional Cybersecurity Won't "Fix" AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prompts Gone Viral: Practical Code Assistant AI Viruses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Malware Found in Trending Hugging Face Repository "Open-OSS/Privacy-Filter" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The lethal trifecta and how to defend against it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploiting MCP Tool Parameters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ShadowLogic: Backdoors in Computational Graphs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silent Sabotage: Hijacking Safetensors Conversion on Hugging Face as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning Becomes the New Launchpad for Ransomware as a story · 1 points
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