I Think, Therefore I Attack: Evaluating Thought Injection Attacks on Reasoning Agents

# I Think, Therefore I Attack: Evaluating Thought Injection Attacks on Reasoning Agents

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/i-think-therefore-i-attack-evaluating-thought-injection-atta · AIR-2026-1826 · live

- Lane: Research
- Severity: 1 (Research / proof of concept): Research paper demonstrating a novel thought injection attack on reasoning models.
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2026-11-09
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: GLM-5.3, MiniMax-M2.5, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

## Summary

Researchers present thought injection attacks targeting Large Reasoning Models by feeding untrusted text into the explicit chain-of-thought stage. The evaluation demonstrates successful attacks against production-class open-weight reasoning models.

## What to do

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## Latest updates

- 2026-11-09: I Think, Therefore I Attack: Evaluating Thought Injection Attacks on Reasoning Agents (https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08811)

## Sources

- 2026-11-09 arXiv: I Think, Therefore I Attack: Evaluating Thought Injection Attacks on Reasoning Agents https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08811

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