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Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware
An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that remains invisible to security scanners, AI agents, and human reviewers.
Summary
An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that remains invisible to security scanners, AI agents, and human reviewers. Researchers at Mozilla's Zero Day Investigative Network (0DIN) AI security platform say that the compromise happens with "no exploit code, no warning, no suspicious command anyone had to approve."
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