arXiv:2611.10037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal AI agents are increasingly deployed on user devices to execute actions involving real money and sensitive data, but their security under social engineering attacks has not been systematically evaluated.
Toward Safety-Aware AI Agents in Realistic Social Engineering Attack Scenarios
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