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Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM Assistants

7 days ago
  • #LLM Security
  • #Prompt Injection
  • #Cybersecurity
  • Research highlights practical attacks against LLM agents, focusing on Promptware risks.
  • Introduces a novel Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) framework for evaluating Promptware risks.
  • Identifies Targeted Promptware Attacks, leveraging indirect prompt injection via emails, calendar invites, and shared documents.
  • Demonstrates 14 attack scenarios across five threat classes, showing digital and physical consequences.
  • Reveals Promptware's potential for on-device lateral movement beyond LLM application boundaries.
  • TARA analysis shows 73% of threats pose High-Critical risk to end users.
  • Discusses mitigations that could reduce risks to Very Low-Medium levels.
  • Findings were disclosed to Google, leading to dedicated mitigations.
  • Argues prompt injection is a fundamental issue with current LLM technology, requiring new scientific advancements.