Defending against Adaptive Prompt Injection Attacks via Reasoning-enabled Task Alignment
Indirect prompt injection attacks hijack LLM-based agents by embedding malicious instructions in third-party data that the agent retrieves during task execution. Existing defenses report near-zero attack success rate on static benchmarks, yet recent adaptive evaluations show that these results collapse once the attacker is allowed to optimize against the deployed defense. In this work, we trace this collapse to two failure modes. First, existing defense methods are confined to recognizing specif
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Published: 13 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Safety & alignment · Military & security · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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