Information Retrieval Poisoning

Attacks that corrupt or contaminate the documents and indexes used by retrieval-augmented systems, causing search engines and information retrieval systems to return misleading or adversarially-selected results.

Key papers

• Lazy Grounding: Attacking Search Agents with Factual Evidence — Shows that factually correct evidence from nearby questions can mislead search agents

Related topics

• RAG Attacks (RAG-specific vulnerabilities)
• LLM Robustness (system resilience)
• Misinformation Attacks (broader attack surface)