Yue Pan

FORGE: Research-Trajectory Hijacking Attacks on Deep Research Agents

Yue Pan, Ziheng Zhang, Junxiang Lei, Changhao Jia, Qingyi Si, Hongcheng Guo

Deep research agents decompose open-ended queries into subtasks, retrieve web evidence over multiple rounds, and synthesize long-form reports. This workflow creates a planning-layer poisoning surface: adversarial documents that enter the retrieval pool can steer follow-up questio…Read more