Hijacking AI Agents with ChatML Role Injection - Robert Shala and Armend Gashi

Robert Shala and Armend Gashi spoke at #BSidesTirana2025 on a joint topic of discussion! As co-founder of Sentry, Robert leads a team of 50 security consultants and has delivered over 2,000 red-team and appsec engagements for major global organizations. He’s also part of OpenAI’s external AI Red Team, bringing deep insight into AI security. With his background an M.S. from Georgetown, a B.S. from RIT, and a passion for wargaming Robert brings a unique perspective to this conversation. Armend Gashi is a Managing Security Consultant at Sentry. With over 5 years in the industry, he specialized in application security and AWS cloud assessments. Armend also performed AI red teaming engagements and developed multi-agent systems to perform security-focused tasks such as code auditing and exploit development. #BSidesTirana #BSides #speakers