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T3Attacking AI Systems

Multimodal and Tool-Use Attacks

Attacks that arrive through images, audio, and files: hidden instructions and adversarial inputs. Then abusing tool-use and function-calling to reach real systems, chaining injection through to action and impact.

Advanced4 min readprofessional streamUpdated Sat Aug 01 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Learning objectives

  • Explain how instructions and adversarial signals hide in images, audio, and files
  • Trace how function-calling turns an injected instruction into a real-world action
  • Chain a multimodal injection through tool use to a concrete impact
  • Test the boundary between what a tool can be asked to do and what it should

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