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Agent Goal Hijacking

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[ AGENT SECURITY ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]

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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2024
PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
2026 (Agent Security)
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