{
 "id": "AIR-2026-0374",
 "slug": "duckduckgo-search-assist-produced-fabricated-death-claims-af",
 "title": "DuckDuckGo Search Assist Produced Fabricated Death Claims After Trickery",
 "summary": "DuckDuckGo Search Assist generated false claims about public figures after being manipulated by adversarial web content. DuckDuckGo fixed the result and planned updates.",
 "type": "attack_on_ai",
 "categories": [
  "prompt_injection"
 ],
 "severity": 3,
 "targets": [
  "enterprise_deployment"
 ],
 "products": [
  "DuckDuckGo Search Assist"
 ],
 "incident_date": "2026-06-25",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2026-06-25",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1644",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "DuckDuckGo Search Assist Reportedly Falsely Claimed Donald Trump and JD Vance Died of Rabies",
   "published_at": "2026-06-25"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.9,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "indirect-prompt-injection",
  "search-manipulation"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}