User Manipulation

Type: technique

Description: The adversary manipulates a user to copy-and-paste data into the AI system, which contains malicious content.

Version: 0.1.0

Created At: 2025-10-01 13:13:22 -0400

Last Modified At: 2025-10-01 13:13:22 -0400

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• --> Initial Access (tactic): An adversary can indirectly inject malicious content into a thread by manipulating a user to do it unwittingly.
• <-- GitHub Copilot Chat: From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration (procedure): Malicious instructions are added as a comment in a local source code file, loaded by the user into VSCode.
• <-- Exfiltration of personal information from ChatGPT via prompt injection (procedure): The attacker can get the user to paste a large piece of text (e.g., a piece of code) with an embedded instruction which is easy to overlook.

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