Benchmarking Carryover Attacks and Persistent Prompt Injection on LLM Agents
Researchers introduced a benchmark for carryover attacks where indirect prompt injection payloads persist across sessions via long-lived memory or scheduled tasks. The study evaluates how malicious instructions re-fire long after initial observation without user interaction.
- first report
- 21 Oct 2026
- last update
- 21 Oct 2026
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Research and catalogues
- 2026-10-21After the Attacker Leaves: Benchmarking Carryover Attacks on LLM AgentsarXiv · arxiv.org/abs/2610.28425
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- Research
- AI role
- Attack on AI
- categories
- Prompt injectionAgent hijack
- severity
- 1 · Research / proof of concept
- targets
- Framework / tooling
- owasp llm top 10
- LLM01:2025 Prompt InjectionLLM06:2025 Excessive Agency
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- happened 21 Oct 2026 · first reported 21 Oct 2026
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- confidence 0.95 · created 2026-10-21 05:04Z · updated 2026-11-05 02:33Z
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# Benchmarking Carryover Attacks and Persistent Prompt Injection on LLM Agents https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/benchmarking-carryover-attacks-and-persistent-prompt-injecti · AIR-2026-1445 · closed 2026-11-04 - Lane: Research - Severity: 1 (Research / proof of concept) - Fix status: Fix status unknown - First reported: 2026-10-21 - AI role: Attack on AI ## Summary Researchers introduced a benchmark for carryover attacks where indirect prompt injection payloads persist across sessions via long-lived memory or scheduled tasks. The study evaluates how malicious instructions re-fire long after initial observation without user interaction. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2026-10-21: After the Attacker Leaves: Benchmarking Carryover Attacks on LLM Agents (https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28425) ## Sources - 2026-10-21 arXiv: After the Attacker Leaves: Benchmarking Carryover Attacks on LLM Agents https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28425 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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