LeakSealer: A Semisupervised Defense for LLMs Against Prompt Injection and Leakage Attacks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00602v1
• Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:04:28 GMT
• Title: LeakSealer: A Semisupervised Defense for LLMs Against Prompt Injection and Leakage Attacks
• Authors: Francesco Panebianco, Stefano Bonfanti, Francesco Trovò, Michele Carminati,
• Abstract summary: LeakSealer is a model-agnostic framework that combines static analysis for forensic insights with dynamic defenses in a Human-In-The-Loop pipeline.<n>We empirically evaluate LeakSealer under two scenarios: (1) jailbreak attempts, employing a public benchmark dataset, and (2) PII leakage, supported by a curated dataset of labeled LLM interactions.
• Score: 7.115093658017371
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The generalization capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their widespread deployment across various applications. However, this increased adoption has introduced several security threats, notably in the forms of jailbreaking and data leakage attacks. Additionally, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), while enhancing context-awareness in LLM responses, has inadvertently introduced vulnerabilities that can result in the leakage of sensitive information. Our contributions are twofold. First, we introduce a methodology to analyze historical interaction data from an LLM system, enabling the generation of usage maps categorized by topics (including adversarial interactions). This approach further provides forensic insights for tracking the evolution of jailbreaking attack patterns. Second, we propose LeakSealer, a model-agnostic framework that combines static analysis for forensic insights with dynamic defenses in a Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) pipeline. This technique identifies topic groups and detects anomalous patterns, allowing for proactive defense mechanisms. We empirically evaluate LeakSealer under two scenarios: (1) jailbreak attempts, employing a public benchmark dataset, and (2) PII leakage, supported by a curated dataset of labeled LLM interactions. In the static setting, LeakSealer achieves the highest precision and recall on the ToxicChat dataset when identifying prompt injection. In the dynamic setting, PII leakage detection achieves an AUPRC of $0.97$, significantly outperforming baselines such as Llama Guard.

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