RAG Poisoning (AML.T0070)

Tactic: Persistence

Tactics
Persistence
Maturity
demonstrated
Reference
atlas.mitre.org/techniques/AML.T0070

Description

Adversaries may inject malicious content into data indexed by a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) system to contaminate a future thread through RAG-based search results. This may be accomplished by placing manipulated documents in a location the RAG indexes (see Gather RAG-Indexed Targets).

The content may be targeted such that it would always surface as a search result for a specific user query. The adversary’s content may include false or misleading information. It may also include prompt injections with malicious instructions, or false RAG entries.

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