AI threats in the wild: The current state of prompt injections on the web
2026-05-20T13:23:40Z•15e19c6013cf4c01941bcf14cb64c4c14821b9a14d4914cef5242737561949d2
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What happened
A set of Google Security Blog posts (Apr 2026) covering emerging and mitigated threats across AI, endpoint, mobile, and crypto domains. Key points: Google Threat Intelligence conducted a broad web sweep and highlights Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) as an active, high-priority attack vector against LLM-based agents and documents real-world IPI patterns and detection efforts; Google Workspace is adopting continuous, layered defenses to reduce IPI risk for Gemini and other LLM-based services. Chrome/Account teams announced Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) rolling out to Windows Chrome 146
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- 15e19c6013cf4c01941bcf14cb64c4c14821b9a14d4914cef5242737561949d2
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- 2026-05-20T13:23:40Z
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