🧠 Your AI Is Under Attack

July 2, 2025

🧠 Your AI Is Under Attack: How Cybercriminals Are Exploiting LLMs—and What You Can Do About It

Forget malware. Forget phishing. The next big cyber threat doesn’t knock on the door—it whispers through it.


Welcome to the dark side of Large Language Models (LLMs), where hackers are no longer breaking in—they're talking their way in.


🎯 The New Weapon: Words

Cybercriminals are exploiting LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude not with code, but with clever prompts. It’s called prompt injection, and it’s changing the cybersecurity game.


How it works:

  • Instead of breaching firewalls, attackers craft malicious text that tricks AI into bypassing its own safety filters.
  • Think of it as social engineering for machines—subtle, stealthy, and scary effective.
  • LLMs, by design, don’t "know" when they're being manipulated. So unless protected, they’ll spill sensitive data, leak internal logic, or even execute rogue actions.


🚨 Real-World Risks: This Isn’t Theoretical


  • Hackers are feeding prompts into public-facing LLMs to generate phishing content, fake legal contracts, and malware code variants.
  • Advanced threats include data leakage, code injections, and model manipulation—all without the attacker touching a line of backend code.


The scariest part?
Even prompt logs and training data can be targeted to reverse-engineer sensitive info. It’s like hackers now have X-ray vision into your AI.


🛡️ Enter: Krome IT’s AI Security Stack

This isn’t a future problem. It’s a right now threat. And most companies are wildly underprepared.

At Krome IT, we don’t just deploy AI—we defend it.


Our AI Proxy Layer:

  • Filters every input and output between your LLM and the outside world.
  • Detects and blocks prompt injection attempts in real time.
  • Sanitizes prompts without breaking functionality.
  • Logs interactions for audit, training, and escalation.


Think of it like antivirus for your AI.


⚠️ If You’re Using AI Without Guardrails, You’re a Sitting Duck

We’ve seen too many organizations race to deploy GPT-based tools without understanding the risks. Prompt injection isn’t a "bug"—it’s a design flaw in how language models reason and respond.



Here’s what business owners and tech leaders need to ask today:

  • Are we monitoring what goes into our AI systems?
  • Are we logging and reviewing what’s coming out?
  • Have we sandboxed AI interactions for sensitive workflows?
  • Is our AI compliant with internal and regulatory data policies?


If the answer is no—or even “I’m not sure”—you’re overdue for a conversation.


💡 The Future of Cybersecurity Is Conversational

AI isn’t just helping hackers write better phishing emails. It’s becoming the target itself.

That’s why Krome IT exists—to make tech smarter, safer, and more human. We secure what others overlook and bring real-time visibility to invisible threats.


🔐 Before your AI says something it shouldn’t, let’s talk.

👉 Visit KromeIT.com — Your last line of defense just got smarter.

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