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

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

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jianli Zhao, Tingchen Fu, Rylan Schaeffer, Mrinank Sharma, Fazl Barez ·

    Chain-of-Thought Hijacking

    arXiv:2510.26418v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) improve task performance through extended inference-time reasoning. Although previous studies suggest that longer reasoning should lead to more robust safety behavior, we find evidence to the contra…

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