Automated jailbreak attack targeting multiple defense strategies
On the map: LLM safety and security → Jailbreaking
Abstract (arXiv)
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of tasks. However, their safety remains a critical concern due to their susceptibility to adversarial prompt-based attacks. In this paper, we present UNIATTACK, an adversarial testing framework designed from a defense-oriented perspective to systematically construct effective black-box attack prompts. Unlike prior approaches that rely on static templates or iterative model-specific tuning, UNIATTACK extracts minimal but high-impact attack features from diverse existing attacks, optimizes them via a specialized attacker LLM, and composes them into flexible templates through automated refinement process. This feature-centric construction enables one-shot attacks that generalize across multiple models and safety categories, providing a practical tool for assessing LLM robustness. Our evaluation results shows that compared to the baselines, UNIATTACK achieves an average attack success rate (ASR) improvement of 64.63%-248.82% on models deployed with multi-layered defense mechanisms and it only takes 0.03%-4.96% cost of the baselines. UNIATTACK artifact is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/UniAttack-Artifact-30F1.
Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Jailbreaking, one of 12 directions in LLM safety and security. Builds on 21 of its 54 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 15 Jun 2026.
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- 2023Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models27 Jul
- 2023Jailbroken: How Does LLM Safety Training Fail?5 Jul
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- 2020Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networkscited by 108
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