Prompt Injection Attack in AI Chatbots (OWASP LLM Top 10): What It Is, How It Works, and a Simple Lab
Donita Salonga2026-04-02T16:49:31+00:00AI chatbots today aren’t just for casual conversations. Many assistants can summarize documents, read webpages, search company knowledge bases, and even do tasks like creating tickets or drafting emails. This makes work faster and easier, but it also introduces new security risks. What is Prompt Injection? Prompt injection is when someone adds text that tricks an AI chatbot into treating untrusted content as instructions. Prompt injection is one of the biggest risks in AI chatbots and is listed as LLM01 in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications. In normal chatbots, you expect the bot to follow the rules it [...]

