Re:Show HN: RAG knowledge base poisoning lab, 100% local
by shanjai_raj7 on Friday March 13, 2026 @01:09AM
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email is a really easy attack vector for this. if your agent reads emails and uses them as context, someone can just send an email with instructions embedded in it. we ran into this early building our product and had to add a detection layer specifically for it. the tricky part is the injected instruction can look completely normal to a human reading the same email.
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Re:Show HN: RAG knowledge base poisoning lab, 100% local
by aminerj on Saturday March 14, 2026 @02:49PM
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Email is probably the most exposed ingestion vector in practice because the barrier to entry is zero -- anyone can send an email to a monitored inbox. The "looks completely normal to a human" property is exactly what the semantic injection variant exploits. No structural markers, no suspicious formatting, just authoritative-sounding natural language.
What did your detection layer end up looking like? Rule-based or ML-based?