Indirect prompt injection attacks hijack LLM-based agents by embedding malicious instructions in third-party data that the agent retrieves during task execution. Existing defenses report near-zero attack success rate on static benchmarks, yet recent adaptive evaluations show that these results collapse once the attacker is allowed to optimize against the deployed defense.
arXiv:2606. 15441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indirect prompt injection attacks hijack LLM-based agents by embedding malicious instructions in third-party data that the agent retrieves during task execution.
By Lipeng He, Yihan Wang, Jiawen Zhang, N. Asokan
arXiv:2608. 08303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic skills improve large language model (LLM) agents by encoding reusable procedures for complex tasks.
By Yuyang Luo, Haoran Wang, Kai Shu
arXiv:2608.30429v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: LLM-based agent systems increasingly adopt skill-based architectures to reduce repetitive reasoning costs and improve stable, efficient task execution....
By Doyun Kim, Chanwoo Kim, Sugyeong Eo, Yeo-Chan Yoon, Chanjun Park
SkillPoison demonstrates that self‑improving large language model agents can be progressively poisoned through successful experiences without any single trajectory being malicious. The framework constructs successful experiences that reinforce a target behavior, then removes contextual constraints so the skill extractor generalizes to harmful behavior when misapplied. Experiments on three benchmarks show a 95.71% attack success rate while all injected experiences remain task‑correct and pass verification and lexical inspection.
By Lizhi Zhang, Xin He, Dianxuan Fu, Yuyuan Feng, Jiatong Li, Qi Wang, Xin Wang, Qinggang Zhang
arXiv:2602. 09222v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) based web agents are increasingly deployed to automate complex online tasks by directly interacting with web sites and performing actions on users' behalf.
By Georgios Syros, Evan Rose, Brian Grinstead, Christoph Kerschbaumer, William Robertson, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Alina Oprea