Part 5: Enterprise Security & Data Poisoning - The Silent Assassin
1. The Silent Assassin: Indirect Prompt Injection In the era of RAG and Agentic AI, Hackers no longer need to directly type attack commands (Jailbreaks) into your chat interface. They attack your very data source. This is known as Indirect Prompt Injection – Vulnerability #1 on the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs list in 2026. Attack Mechanism: A Hacker embeds a malicious command line into a PDF file, Word document, or on a public website. This command could be printed in white text on a white background, with a 1px font size, or hidden deep within CSS/Metadata structures. The human eye cannot see it, but Data Ingestion tools (like Unstructured.io or LlamaParse) read it crystal clear. ...