Defusing Explosive Prompts: Understanding and Preventing Trigger-Based Prompt Injections in LLM Agents

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Justin Szczepaniak, Elad Feldman, Naum Viner, Ben Nassi)

Summary by Cyber Security News22 Sep 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2609.22510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM applications integrate with external tools, they are increasingly exposed to indirect prompt injection (IPI), where adversarial instructions are embedded in retrieved content. Conventional IPIs fire on contact: the moment an agent ingests the content, it carries out the instruction.

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