When Bots Take the Bait: Exposing and Mitigating the Emerging Social Engineering Attack in Web Automation Agent

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Main Authors:	Wu, Xinyi, Hong, Geng, Chen, Yueyue, Liu, MingXuan, Jin, Feier, Pan, Xudong, Dai, Jiarun, Liu, Baojun
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Cryptography and Security Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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