Promptware Kill Chain – Five-step Kill Chain Model For Analyzing Cyberthreats

**Promptware Kill Chain:** The article defines "promptware"—malicious prompts or poisoned multimodal content—as a malware-like payload for LLM systems and maps a five-step kill chain (Initial Access, Privilege Escalation, Persistence, Lateral Movement, Actions on Objective), illustrating how multi-stage attacks can enable data exfiltration, remote code execution, self-replicating worms, and long-term persistence in RAG or memory features.