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Dark Reading· Alexander Culafi·Indexed by this site · Originally published

社交工程攻击 AI 智能体:2026 年新型 BEC 威胁

Social Engineering AI Agents: The New BEC for 2026

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As enterprises grant AI agents access to business systems, attackers are manipulating agents into performing authorized operations through prompt injection and feeding malicious content, forming a new type of BEC attack. Fortra's John Wilson pointed out that agents have difficulty distinguishing between instructions and the data they process, and attackers can embed malicious instructions into third-party content such as resumes. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has identified 22 attack techniques in the wild, targeting unauthorized transactions, sensitive information leakage, and system prompt leakage, among others.

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