AI threats in the wild: The current state of prompt injections on the web (Google Online Security Blog)

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Posted by Thomas Brunner, Yu-Han Liu, Moni Pande At Google, our Threat Intelligence teams are dedicated to staying ahead of real-world adversarial activity, proactively monitoring emerging threats before they can impact users. Right now, Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) is a top priority for the security community, anticipating it as a primary attack vector for adversaries to target and compromise AI agents. But while the danger of IPI is widely discussed, are threat actors actually exploiting this vector today – and if so, how? To answer these questions and to uncover real-world abuse, we initiated a broad sweep of the public web to monitor for known indirect prompt injection patterns. This is what we found.  The threat of indirect prompt injection Unlike a direct injection where a user "jailbreaks" a chatbot,…
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AI threats in the wild: The current state of prompt injections on the web

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Posted by Thomas Brunner, Yu-Han Liu, Moni Pande At Google, our Threat Intelligence teams are dedicated to staying ahead of real-world adversarial activity, proactively monitoring emerging threats before they can impact users. Right now, Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) is a top priority for the security community, anticipating it as a primary attack vector for adversaries to target and compromise AI agents. But while the danger of IPI is widely discussed, are threat actors actually exploiting this vector today – and if so, how? To answer these questions and to uncover real-world abuse, we initiated a broad sweep of the public web to monitor for known indirect prompt injection patterns. This is what we found.  The threat of indirect prompt injection Unlike a direct injection where a user "jailbreaks" a chatbot,…
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UNC6692 Impersonates IT Helpdesk via Microsoft Teams to Deploy SNOW Malware

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A previously undocumented threat activity cluster known as UNC6692 has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics via Microsoft Teams to deploy a custom malware suite on compromised hosts. "As with many other intrusions in recent years, UNC6692 relied heavily on impersonating IT helpdesk employees, convincing their victim to accept a Microsoft Teams chat invitation from an account
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Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign

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Bitwarden CLI has been compromised as part of the newly discovered and ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign, according to new findings from Socket. "The affected package version appears to be @bitwarden/cli@2026.4.0, and the malicious code was published in 'bw1.js,' a file included in the package contents," the application security company said. "The attack appears to have leveraged a
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: $290M DeFi Hack, macOS LotL Abuse, ProxySmart SIM Farms +25 New Stories

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You scroll past one incident and see another that feels familiar, like it should have been fixed years ago, but it still works with small changes. Same bugs. Same mistakes. The supply chain is messy. Packages you did not check are stealing data, adding backdoors, and spreading. Attacking the systems behind apps is easier than breaking the apps themselves. The exploits are simple but still work
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[Webinar] Mythos Reality Check: Beating Automated Exploitation at AI Speed

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Imagine a world where hackers don't sleep, don't take breaks, and find weak spots in your systems instantly. Well, that world is already here. Thanks to AI, attackers are now launching automated, large-scale exploits faster than ever before. The time you have to fix a vulnerability before it gets attacked is shrinking to zero. We call this the Collapsing Exploit Window, and it means your
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Project Glasswing Proved AI Can Find the Bugs. Who’s Going to Fix Them?

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Last week, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, an AI model so effective at discovering software vulnerabilities that they took the extraordinary step of postponing its public release. Instead, the company has given access to Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and a coalition of others to find and patch bugs before adversaries can. Mythos Preview, the model that led to Project Glasswing, found
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China-Linked GopherWhisper Infects 12 Mongolian Government Systems with Go Backdoors

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Mongolian governmental institutions have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as GopherWhisper. "The group wields a wide array of tools mostly written in Go, using injectors and loaders to deploy and execute various backdoors in its arsenal," Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker
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Vercel Finds More Compromised Accounts in Context.ai-Linked Breach

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Vercel on Wednesday revealed that it has identified an additional set of customer accounts that were compromised as part of a security incident that enabled unauthorized access to its internal systems. The company said it made the discovery after expanding its investigation to include an extra set of compromise indicators, alongside a review of requests to the Vercel network and environment
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Apple Patches iOS Flaw That Stored Deleted Signal Notifications in FBI Forensic Case

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Apple has rolled out a software fix for iOS and iPadOS to address a Notification Services flaw that stored notifications marked for deletion on the device. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28950 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a logging issue that has been addressed with improved data redaction. "Notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device,"
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