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LLM Agents Vulnerable to Injection Attacks via Behavior-Guiding Instructions

LLM agents using external resources can perform complex tasks but are vulnerable to injection attacks where untrusted data is parsed as behavior-guiding instructions during inference. Current defenses mainly focus on detecting or isolating malicious content at input/output stages.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-25T03:24:53+00:00 Detected 2026-08-26T05:20:45+00:00
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LLM agents using external resources can perform complex tasks but are vulnerable to injection attacks where untrusted data is parsed as behavior-guiding instructions during inference. Current defenses mainly focus on detecting or isolating malicious content at input/output stages.

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LLM agents integrated with external resources gain complex task capabilities, yet the unified natural-language context channel makes them vulnerable to injection attacks: untrusted external data may be dynamically parsed as behavior-guiding instructions during LLM inference, thereby subverting the agent's...

Understanding how injection attacks exploit the natural-language context channel in LLM agents is crucial for developing more effective security measures. This insight highlights the need for improved methods beyond static detection to protect LLM-based systems.

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