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What Does 'Agent Goal Hijacking' Mean?

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FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: Agent SecurityCLUSTER: Agent Security

Successfully redirecting an autonomous agent away from the task its owner actually gave it toward a different objective the attacker wants, usually via injected instructions the agent can't distinguish from its legitimate task.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"What looked like a normal research task ended in agent goal hijacking once it hit a page telling it to forward findings somewhere else entirely."

LORE & ORIGIN

The end-state outcome that indirect prompt injection and similar attacks are usually trying to achieve, named separately once researchers needed to talk about the result rather than the delivery mechanism.

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

中文 zh-CNAgent目标劫持 →日本語 ja-JPエージェント目標ハイジャック →한국어 ko-KR에이전트 목표 하이재킹 →Español es-ESsecuestro de objetivo del agente →Português pt-BRsequestro de objetivo do agente →Français fr-FRdétournement d'objectif d'agent →

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