🎩 Top 5 Security and AI Reads - Week #32

Attention-based AI forensic analysis, research software supply chain vulnerabilities, autonomous AI red-teaming frameworks, LLM PII redaction capabilities, and academic peer review identity theft.

Welcome to the thirty-second instalment of the Stats and Bytes Top 5 Security and AI Reads weekly newsletter. We're kicking off with a romp through AttnTrace, an attention-based approach for post-attack forensic analysis that identifies which parts of the LLM context contributed to malicious outputs, offering promising capabilities for AI incident response. Next, we examine a critical assessment of software supply chain security practices in research repositories, revealing concerning gaps when evaluated against OpenSSF Scorecard metrics and providing actionable recommendations for improvement. We then jump into ASTRA, an ambitious autonomous red-teaming framework that maps AI vulnerability spaces across spatial and temporal dimensions using knowledge graphs and Monte Carlo methods to generate comprehensive evaluations and datasets. Following that, we explore research on LLM capabilities for PII redaction, presenting both comprehensive performance evaluations and open-source fine-tune…