Misinformation Attacks

Attacks that leverage false, misleading, or out-of-context information to manipulate AI systems, search engines, and information retrieval pipelines. Includes both campaigns using traditional misinformation and novel adversarial techniques that exploit system vulnerabilities.

Key papers

• Lazy Grounding: Attacking Search Agents with Factual Evidence — Novel attack using factually correct but contextually misapplied information

Related topics

• RAG Attacks (attacks on retrieval-augmented systems)
• Information Retrieval Poisoning (corpus-level attacks)
• LLM Robustness (LLM vulnerability landscape)