arXiv AI

Caught in the Act(ivation): Toward Pre-Output and Multi-Turn Detection of Credential Exfiltration by LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 04141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents often place sensitive credentials in the same context window as untrusted retrieved content, creating a direct path for indirect prompt injection to induce credential exfiltration.

arXiv AI
Jul 29

Early Detection of Distributed Backdoors in Multi-Agent LLM Systems: A Characterization Study

arXiv:2607. 24893v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems can be attacked by a payload that no single agent ever holds in full: a poisoned tool hides encrypted fragments in its observations, spreads them across several agents, and an external step reassembles and executes them after the run.

By Diego Fernandez Arias, Dev Prashant Mistry, Ren Wang, Yibo Hu