The Devil is in the Context: Nine Dimensions of Prompt Injection Attacks

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Jiamin Chang, Kristina Nikoli\'c, Rishi Sharma, Giovanni Cherubin, Vasilios Mavroudis, Jose Sanchez Vicarte, Arnav Garg, Hammond Pearce, Andrew Paverd, Ahmed Sa)

Summary by Cyber Security News4 Nov 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2611.04672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt injection is usually discussed and evaluated as a single, homogeneous type of attack. However, vulnerabilities reported in real-world systems show that prompt injections vary widely. Moreover, the same instruction can be a prompt injection in one context and a legitimate request in another, depending on the user's intent and the system's policies.

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