Eoin Wickens

WORKSHOP: The AI-talian Job: Hands-on attacks on AI Systems

Want to attack AI but not sure how? We’ll teach you how to hack realistic AI-enabled systems to exploit them for your own gain. In this workshop, you’ll attack the models of a major fictional financial institution – HiddenBank, and exploit its RAG-enabled LLM to extract sensitive data about its operations. Using what you’ve stolen, you’ll give Catch Me If You Can a run for its money and forge checks that you might (not) be able to cash. You’ll learn how organizations are implementing AI in business-critical settings and discover methods for attacking both generative and predictive AI alongside best practices for mitigation.

Eoin Wickens is Technical Research Director at HiddenLayer, where he works as a leading researcher in securing artificial intelligence systems. He has previously worked in threat research, threat intelligence and malware reverse engineering and has been published over a dozen times, including co-authoring a book on cyber threat intelligence focusing on Cobalt Strike. Eoin has spoken at conferences such as BSides San Francisco, DEF CON AI Village, LABSCON and 44CON and proudly supports the Irish cybersecurity community as a south chapter member lead of Cyber Ireland. Eoin lives on a small island off the coast of mainland Ireland, and when he’s not out at sea, he’s thinking about how he can get back out there.