{
  "id": 5744,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16548v2",
  "title": "A Survey on Long-Term Memory Security in LLM Agents: Attacks, Defenses, and Governance Across the Memory Lifecycle",
  "summary": "The emergence of writable, cross-session persistent memory in LLM agents introduces a qualitatively different threat landscape from conventional input-centric security concerns, characterized by three properties: persistence, statefulness, and propagation. To systematically characterize this landscape, we propose a Memory Lifecycle Framework that organizes attacks, defenses, and their cross-phase dependencies along two axes: six lifecycle phases (Write, Store, Retrieve, Execute, Share & Propagat",
  "authors": "Zehao Lin, Xixuan Hao, Renyu Fu, Shaobo Cui, Kai Chen, Chunyu Li et al.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-17T06:28:22.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:57.535Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/5744",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16548v2",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}