Indirect Prompt Injection: The 2026 Attack Surface
Chained injection attacks against multi-agent systems have increased 312% in 12 months. Here's what changed and why standard guardrails fail.
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Chained injection attacks against multi-agent systems have increased 312% in 12 months. Here's what changed and why standard guardrails fail.
67% of audited RAG systems return at least one document the requester shouldn't see. The root cause is almost never what you think.
A single recursive loop can drain a $50K monthly LLM budget in under 9 hours. Most systems have no circuit breaker.
When an agent has tool access, injection attacks don't stop at text. We document three production compromises involving real tool execution.
Proprietary training data can be partially reconstructed from embedding endpoints. Here's the attack surface and what to close.
Semantic caches built for performance are trivially exploitable for injection persistence. One poisoned cache entry can affect thousands of users.