Analysis

20 Prompt Injection Techniques Every Red Teamer Should Test | by Facundo Fernandez

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Earliest dated coverage: 4 Sep 2025 · First observed: 25 Oct 2026 · Latest dated coverage: 4 Sep 2025

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4 Sep 2025medium.com

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Why it matters

Fernandez’s checklist offers defenders a starting point for broadening prompt-injection testing, although the available excerpt provides no evidence of effectiveness against specific systems.

Facundo Fernandez’s article presents a red-team checklist of 20 prompt-injection techniques across seven categories for assessing LLM applications, copilots, and agentic integrations. The available excerpt introduces direct instruction overrides with a high-level payload example, rather than demonstrating a new exploit or reporting a compromise.