MobileInject Cross-Modal Consistency Injection Against Mobile Agents
MobileInject, Mobile MLLM Agents
Researchers presented MobileInject to evaluate how multimodal large language model mobile agents are vulnerable to indirect cross-modal prompt injection. The attack embeds malicious instructions within cross-application smartphone content to steer agent behavior.
- first report
- 19 Oct 2026
- last update
- 19 Oct 2026
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2026-10-19MobileInject: Evaluating Reasoning-to-Action Security of MLLM-Based Mobile Agents under Cross-Modal Consistency InjectionarXiv · arxiv.org/abs/2610.23307
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Classification
- lane
- Research
- AI role
- Attack on AI
- categories
- Prompt injection
- severity
- 1 · Research / proof of concept
- targets
- Framework / tooling, Individuals
- owasp llm top 10
- LLM01:2025 Prompt Injection
- mitre atlas
- AML.T0051 LLM Prompt Injection
- dates
- happened 19 Oct 2026 · first reported 19 Oct 2026
- origin
- News & research feeds
- record
- confidence 0.95 · created 2026-10-19 05:07Z · updated 2026-11-03 03:04Z
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# MobileInject Cross-Modal Consistency Injection Against Mobile Agents https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/mobileinject-cross-modal-consistency-injection-against-mobil · AIR-2026-1396 · closed 2026-11-02 - Lane: Research - Severity: 1 (Research / proof of concept) - Fix status: Fix status unknown - First reported: 2026-10-19 - AI role: Attack on AI - Products: MobileInject, Mobile MLLM Agents ## Summary Researchers presented MobileInject to evaluate how multimodal large language model mobile agents are vulnerable to indirect cross-modal prompt injection. The attack embeds malicious instructions within cross-application smartphone content to steer agent behavior. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2026-10-19: MobileInject: Evaluating Reasoning-to-Action Security of MLLM-Based Mobile Agents under Cross-Modal Consistency Injection (https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23307) ## Sources - 2026-10-19 arXiv: MobileInject: Evaluating Reasoning-to-Action Security of MLLM-Based Mobile Agents under Cross-Modal Consistency Injection https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23307 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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