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To examine the multifaceted intersection of large language models with cybersecurity and data privacy, spanning beneficial defenses, offensive threats, and intrinsic system vulnerabilities.

March 1, 2024High-Confidence ComputingOpen Access

A survey on large language model (LLM) security and privacy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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YYYifan YaoNanjing Sport Institute JDJinhao DuanDrexel University KXKaidi XuImperial College London

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Literature review reveals dual roles of large language models in cybersecurity, indicating they both strengthen defensive operations and enable sophisticated user-level attacks.

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To examine the multifaceted intersection of large language models with cybersecurity and data privacy, spanning beneficial defenses, offensive threats, and intrinsic system vulnerabilities.
Conducted a comprehensive literature survey categorizing existing research into defensive applications, offensive threat vectors, and model vulnerabilities with corresponding defenses.
Evaluated model capabilities across domains including software vulnerability detection, data confidentiality protection, and parameter extraction attacks.
Large language models outperform conventional security methods in defensive tasks such as identifying code vulnerabilities and protecting data confidentiality.
Models facilitate automated offensive actions, particularly user-targeted cyberattacks, by leveraging their human-like reasoning abilities.
Research remains primarily theoretical and constrained regarding parameter extraction attacks and safe instruction tuning due to model scale and intellectual property protections.

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Yao et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d76080f44a16d01ef30ad8 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hcc.2024.100211

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Literature review reveals dual roles of large language models in cybersecurity, indicating they both strengthen defensive operations and enable sophisticated user-level attacks.

A survey on large language model (LLM) security and privacy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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A survey on large language model (LLM) security and privacy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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