RedTWIZ: Diverse LLM Red Teaming via Adaptive Attack Planning
Artur Horal , Daniel Pina , Henrique Paz , Iago Paulo , João Soares , Rafael Ferreira , Diogo Tavares , Diogo Glória-Silva , João Magalhães , David Semedo
Published on arXiv
2510.06994
Prompt Injection
OWASP LLM Top 10 — LLM01
Key Finding
Multi-turn adversarial attack strategies from the RedTWIZ framework successfully elicit unsafe code and malicious outputs from state-of-the-art safety-aligned LLMs.
RedTWIZ
Novel technique introduced
This paper presents the vision, scientific contributions, and technical details of RedTWIZ: an adaptive and diverse multi-turn red teaming framework, to audit the robustness of Large Language Models (LLMs) in AI-assisted software development. Our work is driven by three major research streams: (1) robust and systematic assessment of LLM conversational jailbreaks; (2) a diverse generative multi-turn attack suite, supporting compositional, realistic and goal-oriented jailbreak conversational strategies; and (3) a hierarchical attack planner, which adaptively plans, serializes, and triggers attacks tailored to specific LLM's vulnerabilities. Together, these contributions form a unified framework -- combining assessment, attack generation, and strategic planning -- to comprehensively evaluate and expose weaknesses in LLMs' robustness. Extensive evaluation is conducted to systematically assess and analyze the performance of the overall system and each component. Experimental results demonstrate that our multi-turn adversarial attack strategies can successfully lead state-of-the-art LLMs to produce unsafe generations, highlighting the pressing need for more research into enhancing LLM's robustness.
Key Contributions
- Automated LLM jailbreak assessment module with LLM-based judges for fine-grained multi-turn conversation scoring without manual annotation
- Diverse generative multi-turn attack suite covering compositional, goal-oriented, and adaptive conversational jailbreak strategies for code/cybersecurity contexts
- Hierarchical adaptive attack planner that probes target LLMs, then dynamically serializes and schedules attacks tailored to each model's specific vulnerabilities