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incidents/AIR-2026-0112

AI Assistants Exploited via Crafted Links for Recommendation Poisoning

Attack on AI3 Confirmed exploitationPrompt injectionAgent hijack

Operators embedded malicious links into websites to hijack initial user turns with AI assistants. The attack manipulated assistant memory and recommendation outputs for promotional purposes.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Prompt injectionprimary
    Untrusted content (web pages, documents, emails, tool output) steers a model into ignoring its instructions.
  • Agent hijack
    An AI agent is tricked into unauthorized actions: tool misuse, data exfiltration through the agent, or acting against its principal.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
Used against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
targets
Enterprise deployment, Individuals
products
AI Assistants
incident date
10 Feb 2026
first reported
15 Sep 2026
origin
MITRE ATLAS
Derived from MITRE ATLAS (Apache 2.0, © MITRE).
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
url-parameter-injection · recommendation-poisoning · memory-manipulation
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:33Z · json

Sources · 2

  1. 2026-09-15
    AI Recommendation Poisoning via Crafted AI Assistant Links
    MITRE ATLAS · atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0072
  2. 2026-09-15
    Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning
    Microsoft Security · microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/02/10/ai-recommendation-poisoning

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