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'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets

A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate.

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A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit,' slipped past AI code reviewers CodeRabbit and Bugbot, which never open image files at all, then convinced a coding agent to read a repo's .env and write every secret into the code as a list of numbers.

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