Dark Reading reported:
John Wilson, senior fellow of threat research at Fortra, tells Dark Reading that AI agents are primarily socially engineered through prompt injections, as agents "can struggle to distinguish between instructions and the data they are asked to process, allowing an attacker to embed malicious instructions within that data."
Wilson adds that the comparison with social engineering humans breaks down when it comes to emotional manipulation, as human attackers exploit triggers like fear, urgency, authority, curiosity, and greed. As AI agents are not sentient and do not experience emotions, equivalent attacks exploit how LLMs interpret instructions, establish trust, and distinguish trusted commands from untrusted instructions.
Wilson adds that the comparison with social engineering humans breaks down when it comes to emotional manipulation, as human attackers exploit triggers like fear, urgency, authority, curiosity, and greed. As AI agents are not sentient and do not experience emotions, equivalent attacks exploit how LLMs interpret instructions, establish trust, and distinguish trusted commands from untrusted instructions.
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