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No date of occurrence, detection date, duration, containment time, loss figure, affected count, records exposed, or remediation is stated; the only date is the article date 2026-10-30, used as disclosure. Detection method is left unknown: AIR Research Lab is described as discovering the campaign, but no source states the signal or means, and a researcher who disclosed is not necessarily the first noticer. event.trigger is written only because the source states the README instructed the agents. Severity is major on unbounded scope; no monetary loss is stated. incident_class security_compromise and failure_class injection_triggered rest on the README instruction sentence. No source states whether any agent actually executed the command, so harm is potential rather than confirmed. event.trigger: prompt_injection was classified, not stated; a trigger is never inferred, so it is unknown. system.tier: not set; no operator named and deployment_context is not a lab's. 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