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incidents/AIR-2026-0357

ZombieAgent Indirect Prompt Injection on ChatGPT

Attack on AI1 Research / proof of conceptPrompt injectionAgent hijack

Researchers demonstrated an indirect prompt injection attack abusing ChatGPT connectors and Deep Research capabilities. Concealed instructions within external content were executed during normal user tasks, highlighting connector risks.

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
1 · Research / proof of concept
Demonstrated by researchers; no known real-world exploitation.
targets
OpenAI
products
ChatGPT, ChatGPT Deep Research
incident date
25 Sep 2025
first reported
31 Jul 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
zombieagent · prompt-injection · chatgpt · indirect-prompt-injection
record
created 2026-10-18 06:55Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:55Z · json

Sources · 2

  1. 2026-07-31
    ZombieAgent: Data Exfiltration Attack on ChatGPT
    MITRE ATLAS · atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0066
  2. 2026-07-31
    ZombieAgent: New ChatGPT Vulnerabilities Let Data Theft Continue (and Spread)
    radware.com · radware.com/blog/threat-intelligence/zombieagent

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