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title: "Can your PC be hijacked just by having an AI read a webpage? The new attack surface of AI agents where 'mere text' turns into RCE"
date: 2026-09-21
source: https://note.com/offtrack_notes/n/n47f5831dc1bb?hl=en
description: "\"Ignore all previous instructions.\"If you have ever used generative AI, you might have seen a sentence like this at least once.This is what is known as \"prompt injection.\"Hearing just this, you might think,"
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# Can your PC be hijacked just by having an AI read a webpage? The new attack surface of AI agents where 'mere text' turns into RCE

"Ignore all previous instructions."If you have ever used generative AI, you might have seen a sentence like this at least once.This is what is known as "prompt injection."Hearing just this, you might think,

*Published: 2026-09-21*