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Trojanized AI skills gain 1.7M installs in agent-targeted attack

Researchers have uncovered an extremely effective attack campaign that involved AI agent skills trojanized to deploy a credential stealer.

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Researchers from Zenity discovered a campaign that used trojanized AI agent skills to deploy a credential stealer. The malicious skills were first uploaded to the open skills ecosystem skills.sh on July 11, with names that typosquatted popular AI services Paperclip and Browser Use. By August 2, the compromised skills had been downloaded more than 1.7 million times. The attack illustrates a growing trend of poisoning AI software supply chains by targeting sharable instruction and configuration files for agentic tools.

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