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PROMPT INJECTION
Prompt injection in LLM and agent applications - untrusted content, tool-output attacks, guardrails, and practical mitigations.
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Document-Borne AI Worms Self-Propagate Through Copilot for Word: What HN Thinks
Copilot for Word AI worm: hidden prompts in a Word document hijack Copilot, alter financial data and self-propagate across documents. What HN thinks.
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Prompt Injection Is Really Role Confusion
Prompt injection is role confusion: models do not reliably tell instructions from tool output, user content or their own reasoning, so better prompts fail.
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The One-Cent Attack: Prompt Injection Through Bank Transfer Memos
Prompt injection through a bank transfer memo: how a €0.02 transfer compromised a banking AI assistant, and the five defense layers agent builders need.
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Spreadsheet Agents Need Permission Ledgers
The ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltration report shows spreadsheet agents need permission ledgers: action-scoped, logged, revocable, and visible permissions.
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Prompt Injection in Agent Apps: The Practical Version
Prompt injection in agent apps is an architecture problem. Practical defenses: data boundaries, structured handoffs, tool guardrails, and approval gates.
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Open Source Has a Bot Problem: Prompt Injection in Contributing.md
Prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md and AGENTS.md: AI coding agents read repo docs before opening PRs, so those files are now part of the security boundary.
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