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LLM-powered GUI agents face risks from environmental injection attacks on Android

LLM-powered GUI agents that autonomously operate smartphones are vulnerable to environmental injection attacks, including indirect prompt injections and adversarial instructions. These attacks can manipulate agent behavior by exploiting untrusted environmental content.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-18T11:33:22+00:00 Detected 2026-08-19T05:22:20+00:00
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LLM-powered GUI agents that autonomously operate smartphones are vulnerable to environmental injection attacks, including indirect prompt injections and adversarial instructions. These attacks can manipulate agent behavior by exploiting untrusted environmental content.

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LLM-powered GUI agents that autonomously operate smartphones are rapidly transitioning from research prototypes to early real-world deployment. However, because these agents routinely process untrusted environmental content, they are highly vulnerable to environmental injection attacks, which include indirect...

As these agents move from prototypes to real-world use, their susceptibility to injection attacks poses significant security risks for smartphone operations. Understanding and benchmarking these vulnerabilities is crucial for developing safer AI-driven mobile interfaces.

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