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AgentLSD Evaluates AI Security Agents Against Adversarial Task Contamination

AgentLSD studies how AI security agents inspecting web pages, code, and logs can be misled by adversarial task contamination, which includes deceptive non-instructional artifacts like fake results and decoy endpoints. This extends beyond prompt injection by targeting the environment with misleading...

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-09-16T17:58:55+00:00 Detected 2026-09-17T05:23:36+00:00
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AgentLSD studies how AI security agents inspecting web pages, code, and logs can be misled by adversarial task contamination, which includes deceptive non-instructional artifacts like fake results and decoy endpoints. This extends beyond prompt injection by targeting the environment with misleading...

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AI agents for security inspect web pages, source code, logs, configuration files, and command outputs. These environments may contain deceptive artifacts that influence the agent's behavior. We call this adversarial task contamination. Whereas prompt injection relies on attacker-supplied instructions, task...

Understanding adversarial task contamination is crucial for improving the robustness of AI security agents against sophisticated attacks that manipulate their input data beyond simple instruction tampering. This research highlights new vulnerabilities in AI-driven security tools that must be addres...

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