Agentland中的恶意行为：深入AI供应链后门问题
Malice in Agentland: Down the Rabbit Hole of Backdoors in the AI Supply Chain
AI总结：
研究探讨了在交互数据上微调AI代理时引入的安全漏洞，提出三种供应链威胁模型，证明通过污染少量演示即可使代理泄露用户信息。
摘要：
尽管在交互数据上微调AI代理能提升其能力，但也引入了关键安全漏洞。我们展示攻击者可通过多个阶段污染数据收集管道，嵌入难以检测的后门，触发时导致危险或恶意行为。我们正式化了三种现实威胁模型，涵盖微调数据污染、预置后门基础模型和环境污染，后者是针对代理训练管道特有的攻击向量。在两个广泛采用的代理基准上评估，三种威胁模型均有效：仅污染少量演示即可嵌入后门，使代理泄露用户信息的成功率超过80%。
英文摘要：
While finetuning AI agents on interaction data -- such as web browsing or tool use -- improves their capabilities, it also introduces critical security vulnerabilities within the agentic AI supply chain. We show that adversaries can effectively poison the data collection pipeline at multiple stages to embed hard-to-detect backdoors that, when triggered, cause unsafe or malicious behavior. We formalize three realistic threat models across distinct layers of the supply chain: direct poisoning of finetuning data, pre-backdoored base models, and environment poisoning, a novel attack vector that exploits vulnerabilities specific to agentic training pipelines. Evaluated on two widely adopted agentic benchmarks, all three threat models prove effective: poisoning only a small number of demonstrations is sufficient to embed a backdoor that causes an agent to leak confidential user information with over 80\% success.
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