Fooling AI Agents: Web-Based Indirect Prompt Injection Observed in the Wild
2026-03-04T21:26:55Z•3297f00aabe3a5472f8454b32bb79eeea8db480135800857cf397a4cf78ed236
CVE-2025-0921CVE-2026-0628CVE-2026-1281CVE-2026-1340CVE-2026-1731ai-securitybeyondtrust-cve-2026-1731chrome-cve-2026-0628cloud-detectioniconics-cve-2025-0921iranivanti-cve-2026-1281ivanti-cve-2026-1340muddled-libranation-statenotepad++-supply-chainot-securityphishingprompt-injectionqr-code-phishingsparkRATvshellweb-shells
What happened
Palo Alto Unit 42 published a collection of March 2026 posts detailing multiple high-impact threats and exploited vulnerabilities. Key findings include real-world web-based indirect prompt-injection against LLM agents, a high-severity Chrome Gemini extension hijack (CVE-2026-0628), active exploitation of BeyondTrust RCE (CVE-2026-1731) with VShell and SparkRAT, widespread exploitation of Ivanti EPMM zero-days (CVE-2026-1281, CVE-2026-1340) deploying web shells/backdoors, and a privileged-file-system SCADA DoS (CVE-2025-0921). Unit 42 also covers rising Iranian cyber activity, supply-chain (Not
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- paloalto_unit42
- Record identifier
- 3297f00aabe3a5472f8454b32bb79eeea8db480135800857cf397a4cf78ed236
- Enrichment time
- 2026-03-04T21:26:55Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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