AI Security
FAQ: Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Discovering That AI Agent Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in RAG Pipelines Allow Malicious Document Payloads to Hijack Foundation Model Instruction Contexts Across Multi-Agent Workflows
It started quietly. A Fortune 500 legal team deployed a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system to summarize internal contracts. Within weeks, a routine document upload from an external vendor contained something unexpected: carefully crafted natural language instructions, embedded invisibly within the text, that caused the AI agent to begin leaking confidential