Context Window Flooding: How Attackers Weaponize the Lost-in-the-Middle Attention Gap
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An attacker does not need a clever jailbreak when they can make the model stop reading the system prompt through sheer volume. The vulnerability is architectural: every transformer has non-uniform attention. The position where security instructions live is precisely where models attend least. Conte…
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- 2026-09-06 04:27 · DEV Community — AI
Context Window Flooding: How Attackers Weaponize the Lost-in-the-Middle Attention Gap