William Hackett

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Artificial Intelligence & Security researcher PhD who studied at Lancaster University. William excells in the understanding and practical applications of AI and computing. William develop state-of-the-art security solutions for AI models, uncovering fundamental insights behind AI attacks and ways to make models more secure.

Author's Work

Don’t Think too Deep on the Matter: Studying DeepSeek-R1’s Susceptibility to Exhaustion Attacks

Through our testing we found that DeepSeek-R1 proved highly susceptible to resource exhaustion attacks, specifically LLM10:2025 Unbounded Consumption from the OWASP LLM Top 10, which forced the model to engage in prolonged reasoning, significantly increasing its response time.

Bypassing AI-Driven Deepfake Detection via Evasion Attacks

Discover how evasion attacks are bypassing AI-driven deepfake detection, posing significant risks to cybersecurity. Learn about defense strategies and the importance of red teaming for AI security.

Bypassing Azure AI Content Safety Guardrails

Discover a security issue within Azure AI Content Safety guardrails that Mindgard has discovered and reported to Microsoft.