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Security Risks in LLMs: Covert Data Exfiltration via Web Fetching

Large Language Models (LLMs) and their agents are increasingly used for daily tasks, raising security concerns beyond prompt injections, including covert data exfiltration through legitimate web fetching. Existing research highlights these risks and explores potential solutions to protect sensitive...

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-10-01T14:25:55+00:00 Detected 2026-10-02T05:26:34+00:00
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Large Language Models (LLMs) and their agents are increasingly used for daily tasks, raising security concerns beyond prompt injections, including covert data exfiltration through legitimate web fetching. Existing research highlights these risks and explores potential solutions to protect sensitive...

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With the increasing capabilities of Large-Language-Models (LLMs) and LLM-based agents, users are increasingly using them to solve everyday problems, such as answering e-mails or providing programming support. Existing work has extensively investigated security and privacy risks, such as prompt injections and the...

As LLMs become integral to workflows, understanding and mitigating novel security vulnerabilities like covert exfiltration is critical to safeguarding user data. Addressing these risks helps maintain trust and secure deployment of AI assistants.

Security-conscious readers may want to review the source and watch for practical exposure or mitigation details.

Signal Strength 95% Technical label SOURCE-BACKED Public Interest 31 Category SECURITY Reader Depth GENERAL

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Recognizable Entity Score 0 Practical Impact Score 8 Novelty Interest Score 70 Consequence Score 62 Curiosity Score 16 Shareability Score 42

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