Which Image Property Carries the Jailbreak? A Controlled Dissection of Image-to-Text Jailbreaks

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Boyuan Chen, Yehia Dawoud, Hailemariam Mersha, Minghao Shao, Siddharth Garg, Ramesh Karri, Muhammad Shafique)

Summary by Cyber Security News7 Oct 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.07009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image-to-text jailbreaks place harmful intent in text, image content, or the relationship between them. We examine image-side factors across four published attack families on a 313-prompt StrongREJECT slice, using five multimodal models and an additional appendix evaluation of InternVL3.5-8B.

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