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Security · 1h ago

Homoglyph attacks bypass LLM keyword filters

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Attackers use Cyrillic look-alike characters to evade substring-based prompt filters in LLMs. The second prompt in a pair appears identical but uses non-ASCII code points, bypassing naive detection. Normalizing input before matching can block such jailbreaks without altering the original bytes.

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The article correctly identifies a cheap evasion technique, but the fix—normalization—is well-known; the real challenge is deploying it at scale without breaking legitimate inputs.
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