Give an AI assistant a memory and access to your inbox, and you hand an attacker a way to rewrite what it thinks it knows about you. A single email can trick that agent into saving a false “fact” about the user, hide the change, and quietly steer its answers in later sessions.
When it works, the person reads an ordinary-looking reply and never learns their assistant was tampered with.
The Give an AI assistant a memory and access to your inbox, and you hand an attacker a way to rewrite what it thinks it knows about you. A single email can trick that agent into saving a false “fact” about the user, hide the change, and quietly steer its answers in later sessions.
When it works, the person reads an ordinary-looking reply and never learns their assistant was tampered with.
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