The Hacker News

Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It

AI Now’s Friendly Fire PoC shows Claude Code and Codex running README-planted payloads on hosts when autonomous command ...

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 ...
Windows Report

Mozilla Warns Clean GitHub Repositories Can Trick Claude Code Into Running Malware

Mozilla researchers revealed a new attack that tricks Claude Code into running hidden commands from seemingly harmless GitHub ...
Developer Tech

Mozilla shows Claude Code malware risk in clean GitHub repo

Mozilla’s 0din team showed how a Claude Code malware GitHub repo attack could use a clean-looking repository to open a ...
eWeek

Clean GitHub Repo Attack Exposes AI Coding Agent Risk

Mozilla 0DIN’s Claude Code demo shows how clean GitHub repos can expose AI coding agents to prompt injection, reverse shells, ...
The New York Times

How to Clean Produce

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Mace Dent Johnson Mace Dent Johnson is a writer on the kitchen team. To test ...

How I stopped a massive WordPress spam attack with 4,700 lines of code in two days - thanks to Codex and Claude

How I stopped a massive WordPress spam attack with 4,700 lines of code in two days - thanks to Codex and Claude ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via 'clean' GitHub repositories

Three levels of indirection, all with seemingly innocuous steps, will catch a bot off-guard.
The New York Times

Dry Cleaning Your Wool Sweaters? Don’t Bother.

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