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most citedHere Comes The AI Worm: Unleashing Zero-click Worms that Target GenAI-Powered Applications

4 citations · 8 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CR2026

Defusing Explosive Prompts: Understanding and Preventing Trigger-Based Prompt Injections in LLM Agents

Justin Szczepaniak, Elad Feldman, Naum Viner +1

As LLM applications integrate with external tools, they are increasingly exposed to indirect prompt injection (IPI), where adversarial instructions are embedded in retrieved conten…

cs.CR2026

Beware of Agentic Botnets: Scalable Untargeted Promptware Attacks via Universal and Transferable Adversarial HalluSquatting

Aya Spira, Stav Cohen, Elad Feldman +3

The growing adoption of agentic LLM applications has introduced a new threat previously named as promptware. While prior work has established that adversaries can exploit direct ch…

cs.CR2026

The Promptware Kill Chain: How Prompt Injections Gradually Evolved Into a Multistep Malware Delivery Mechanism

Oleg Brodt, Elad Feldman, Bruce Schneier +1

Prompt injection was initially framed as the large language model (LLM) analogue of SQL injection. However, over the past three years, attacks labeled as prompt injection have evol…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous

Ben Nassi, Stav Cohen, Or Yair

The growing integration of LLMs into applications has introduced new security risks, notably known as Promptware - maliciously engineered prompts designed to manipulate LLMs to com…

cs.CR2024★ 3 cited

Unleashing Worms and Extracting Data: Escalating the Outcome of Attacks against RAG-based Inference in Scale and Severity Using Jailbreaking

Stav Cohen, Ron Bitton, Ben Nassi

In this paper, we show that with the ability to jailbreak a GenAI model, attackers can escalate the outcome of attacks against RAG-based GenAI-powered applications in severity and…

cs.CR2024

A Jailbroken GenAI Model Can Cause Substantial Harm: GenAI-powered Applications are Vulnerable to PromptWares

Stav Cohen, Ron Bitton, Ben Nassi

In this paper we argue that a jailbroken GenAI model can cause substantial harm to GenAI-powered applications and facilitate PromptWare, a new type of attack that flips the GenAI m…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Here Comes The AI Worm: Unleashing Zero-click Worms that Target GenAI-Powered Applications

Stav Cohen, Ron Bitton, Ben Nassi

In this paper, we show that when the communication between GenAI-powered applications relies on RAG-based inference, an attacker can initiate a computer worm-like chain reaction th…