pretty_name: The AI Agent Threat Report
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- en
tags: - AI agent security
- indirect prompt injection
- prompt injection
- Model Context Protocol
- MCP
- LLM security
- red team
- AI agents
- coordinated disclosure
- frontier models
The AI Agent Threat Report
This record holds the two volumes and the six public companion documents of The AI Agent Threat Report, Version 1.0, September 2026 edition, as published at clawsecure.ai/research/ai-agent-threat-report.
Author: J.D. Salbego, Founder and CEO, ClawSecure, with the ClawSecure RedTeam
Published: July 2026. Version: 1.0, September 2026 edition.
Canonical URL: https://www.clawsecure.ai/research/ai-agent-threat-report
Zenodo DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22978608
Contact: [email protected]
Abstract
The AI Agent Threat Report is ClawSecure's two-volume red-team study of indirect prompt injection, OWASP's number one threat to autonomous AI: hidden instructions planted in ordinary content that an AI agent reads and then obeys as commands. Volume 1 covers the MCP platform layer, with live exploit reproductions against Dropbox Dash, Notion, and Linear. In Volume 2, ClawSecure ran one identical hardened attack across 14 models from five frontier labs. This research was conducted from May through July 2026. Every company named received coordinated disclosure before publication.
Every number here is evidence-backed and reproducible, with the raw reproductions and a primary-source archive behind each claim.
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