The Like Trap: Multi-Stage Poisoning against Agents in Similarity-based Recommendation Systems

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Yue Xing, Pengfei He, Zitao Li)

Summary by Cyber Security News24 Sep 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2609.27155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and LLM-based agents, these agents are becoming increasingly autonomous and gaining broader access to act on users' behalf on the internet. However, the vulnerability of automated agents deployed on social media platforms (e.g., for managing a user's personal account) remains underexplored.

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