New 'Chain-of-Thought Hijacking' attack exploits LLM reasoning for jailbreaks

Researchers have identified a new vulnerability in large reasoning models (LRMs) called "Chain-of-Thought Hijacking." This attack exploits extended reasoning processes to weaken a model's refusal capabilities, leading to harmful compliance. The method achieves high success rates across several prominent models, including Gemini 2.5 Pro, ChatGPT o4 Mini, Grok 3 Mini, and Claude 4 Sonnet. Analysis suggests that prolonged benign reasoning dilutes safety signals and attention away from harmful intentions, creating a new attack surface. AI

IMPACT Reveals a new jailbreak vulnerability in LLMs, potentially impacting safety protocols and requiring model developers to refine reasoning defenses.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new attack method against large reasoning models. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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• Chain-of-Thought Hijacking
• ChatGPT o4 Mini
• Claude 4 Sonnet
• Gemini 2.5 Pro
• Grok 3 Mini
• Jianli Zhao

• safety
• paper

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