Findings/every-frontier-model-hijackable

Every frontier agent tested in two large public red-teaming competitions was hijacked at least once; in the 2026 competition the injections also had to conceal the compromise from the user.

Reportedmeasured2 evidence records from 1 independent sourceassistant-drafted

Scope: what this does not show

Competition settings with many attackers; per-attempt success is low and varies about 17-fold across models.

Reported: Stated by one source and not yet corroborated or challenged.

Evidence

Jul 28, 2025

Large public competition finds all 22 tested frontier agents vulnerable to prompt injection

arXiv

Mar 16, 2026

CAISI, UK AISI and Gray Swan competition finds concealed indirect injections succeed on all 13 frontier models

arXiv

All 13 frontier models were hijacked at least once; per-attempt success ranged from 0.5% to 8.5%.

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This finding supports Attackers who adapt to a defense defeat most published prompt-injection defenses that reported near-zero success against static attacks.Crowds of attackers who iterate get through every frontier agent tested; these competitions tested deployed models, not published research defenses.
This finding qualifies Undefended tool-using agents follow injected instructions in a substantial share of benchmark cases.On 2025 and 2026 frontier models with their built-in safeguards, per-model success in the 2026 competition was 0.5% to 8.5%, far below 2024 benchmark rates, though no model was immune.

Key questions that rely on this finding

Can prompt injection against AI agents be reliably defended?Not reliably. Defenses reduce injection but none has eliminated it; limiting what untrusted input can trigger is the most defensible approach.

Status history

2025-07-28ReportedGray Swan competition: every agent attacked successfully for most behaviors. · record
2026-03-16Reportedreconfirmed2026 competition with US CAISI and UK AISI repeats the result for 13 models. · record

What would change this: A frontier model that withstands a comparable competition.
Evidence kind: measured: An experiment or evaluation produced the number.
Freshness: Evidence 194d old · recheck in 171 daysNewest evidence Mar 16, 2026. Half-life 365 days.
Methods tested: Adaptive red-teaming Indirect prompt injection
Topics: Prompt injection
Attack surface: Untrusted content

Cite this record

Fide AI. "Every frontier agent tested in two large public red-teaming competitions was hijacked at least once; in the 2026 competition the injections also had to conceal the compromise from the user.." Agentic Cyber Explorer, record every-frontier-model-hijackable. https://agentic-cyber-explorer.pages.dev/findings/every-frontier-model-hijackable/ (corpus as of 2026-09-26).

BibTeX

@misc{fide-ace-every-frontier-model-hijackable,
  author = {{Fide AI}},
  title = {Every frontier agent tested in two large public red-teaming competitions was hijacked at least once; in the 2026 competition the injections also had to conceal the compromise from the user.},
  howpublished = {Agentic Cyber Explorer},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://agentic-cyber-explorer.pages.dev/findings/every-frontier-model-hijackable/},
  note = {Record every-frontier-model-hijackable; corpus as of 2026-09-26}
}

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