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CrowdStrike's AI security research team has identified 18 new prompt injection techniques, expanding its taxonomy to over 200 methods, which enable adversaries to manipulate AI systems and agents through indirect means like hidden context, delayed triggers, and special token injection, leading to unauthorized actions such as data exfiltration or arbitrary command execution.

CrowdStrike has identified 18 new prompt injection techniques, expanding its taxonomy to over 200 methods, which enable adversaries to manipulate AI systems and agents through hidden context, delayed triggers, semantic constraints, boundary spoofing, and social engineering to bypass security measures, leading to modified behavior, data exfiltration, or malicious command execution in AI-driven applications and agents like chatbots or those running in Kubernetes.

CrowdStrike's AI security research team has identified 18 new prompt injection techniques, expanding its taxonomy to over 200 methods, which adversaries can use to manipulate AI systems and agents through hidden context, delayed triggers, semantic constraints, boundary spoofing, and social engineering, potentially leading to agent hijacking, data exfiltration, or system compromise by causing them to execute unintended commands like shell scripts or SQL queries.

Threat actors are leveraging AI to enhance vulnerability discovery, exploit development, defense evasion, and autonomous operations, with state-sponsored groups showing particular interest in AI-driven vulnerability research and exploit generation.

Unsecured Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, used to connect AI agents to enterprise tools, lack authentication and audit trails, leading to data exfiltration, private repo leaks, cross-tenant exposure, and remote code execution due to AI agents using valid user credentials to make API calls based on potentially poisoned context.