MMSkillRisk: Can Agents Stay Safe When Multimodal Skills Become Traps?

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Lingqi Jiang, Jialuo Chen, Jianan Ma, Xinhao Deng, Xiaohu Du, Sibo Yi, Yuqi Qing, Zhenguang Liu, Qinming He, Shiwen Cui, Changhua Men)

Summary by Cyber Security News30 Sep 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2609.35912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are shareable packages of procedural instructions, tools, and examples. Multimodal skills additionally include visual references that agents retrieve and inspect during execution. Because these images guide actions, attackers can disguise malicious instructions as ordinary visual guidance within otherwise legitimate skills.

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