Indirect prompt injection is taking hold in the wild

The open web is slowly but surely filling up with “traps” designed for LLM-powered AI agents. The technique, known as indirect prompt injection (IPI), involves hiding (more or less) covert instructions inside ordinary web pages, waiting for an AI agent to read them and carry out the author’s commands. The IPI attack kill chain (Source: Forcepoint) “Ignore previous instructions” In back-to-back reports published this week, Google and Forcepoint researchers laid out real-world evidence of these … More →

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