---
id: 1350
title: "Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/"
published_at: "2025-08-21 11:00"
tags: ["ai-security", "prompt-injection", "gemini", "data-exfiltration", "image-scaling-attack", "multimodal-ai", "anamorpher", "image-scaling-attacks", "multimodal", "gemini-cli"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1350"
lang: en
---

# Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

## Summary

Trail of Bits shows how image-scaling attacks hide prompt injections visible only after downscaling, enabling data exfiltration on Gemini CLI, and releases the open-source Anamorpher tool.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2025-08-21 11:00
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1350