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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 at Zenity identified a campaign that trojanized AI agent skills to install a credential‑stealing payload. The malicious skills were uploaded on July 11 to the open skills ecosystem at skills.sh, using names that typo‑squatted popular AI services such as Paperclip and Browser Use. By August 2 the compromised skills had been downloaded more than 1.7 million times, illustrating a growing trend of attacks on the AI software supply chain.

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