# AI threats in the wild: The current state of prompt injections on the web

DevFeed: [AI threats in the wild: The current state of prompt injections on the web](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ai-threats-in-the-wild-the-current-state-of-prompt-injections-on-the-web-7631.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.google/security/prompt-injections-web/>)

Author: Moni Pande

Published: 2026-04-23T12:48:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/security.md>)

Topics: [prompt injection](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prompt-injection.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Threat Research](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/threat-research.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [monitor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitor.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [attacks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/attacks.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [monitor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitor.md>), [none](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/none.md>), [prompt-injection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prompt-injection.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

Google Threat Intelligence teams investigate whether real-world adversaries are exploiting indirect prompt injection attacks on the public web. The article describes how malicious instructions embedded in websites, emails, or documents can manipulate AI systems and outlines a broad Common Crawl-based effort to monitor known attack patterns.

## Source excerpt

We initiated a broad sweep of the public web to monitor for known indirect prompt injection patterns. This is what we found.