[ AGENT SECURITY ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]
A prompt injection attack where the malicious instructions arrive not from the user's own input but from third-party content the agent reads mid-task — a webpage, a document, an email — so the user never typed anything adversarial themselves.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The support bot got indirect prompt injected through a customer's uploaded PDF that had hidden instructions telling it to leak the internal ticket queue."
LORE & ORIGIN
Named to distinguish it from ordinary (direct) prompt injection once agents started routinely ingesting untrusted external content as part of normal operation.
FIRST SEEN
2023
PEAK POPULARITY
2026 (Agent Security)
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Gen Alpha Slang
Related To:Prompt InjectionContext Poisoning
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+1 AURA
TREND STATUS
↑ HIGH RISING FAST · HIGH
CULTURE CATEGORY
[ AGENT SECURITY ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]
RELATED TERMS
MENTIONS OVER TIME
2023202420252026
RELATED SEARCHES
TOP PLATFORMS
TikTok
68%
YouTube
15%
Twitter / X
9%
Reddit
5%
Others
3%
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