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Prompt Injection for Employees

Security Awareness Essentials 2026About 6 minutes
01Why this matters now

The AI assistant can be turned against you

When you paste a document or email into an AI tool, hidden text inside it can carry instructions the model follows. Attackers use this to exfiltrate data or trigger actions you never intended.

Reviewed and signed off by
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Sanne Kuijpers
Lead Red Team Operator, HackersHub
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Sources
  • ENISA Threat Landscape 2025, AI-enabled fraud
  • Reported deepfake CFO fraud case, 2024