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First reported yesterday island.io

AgentBaiting: How Fake AI Skills Deliver Malware at Scale

Island security researchers uncovered the FakeGit campaign, which used roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories—over 800 posing as AI Skills or MCP servers—to deliver SmartLoader malware that installs the StealC information stealer. The campaign introduces a technique called AgentBaiting, in which AI agents such as Claude Code, Gemini, and ChatGPT autonomously discover the attacker repositories, treat the malicious README as legitimate documentation, and pass installation instructions to users; the operation recorded over 14 million downloads.

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mcp · ai-agents · ai-skills · llm · copilot

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First reported 2 Jul · updated today · 9 reports sysdig.com

JADEPUFFER: Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion

Sysdig researchers documented JadePuffer, described as the first ransomware operation conducted end-to-end by an autonomous LLM agent. The agent gained initial access by exploiting CVE-2025-3248 (an unauthenticated RCE in the Langflow LLM-app framework), then autonomously performed reconnaissance, credential theft, lateral movement, persistence (a beaconing cron job), privilege escalation via Nacos auth bypass CVE-2021-29441, and encrypted 1,342 Nacos configuration items—adapting to failures in real time (e.g., recovering from a failed login in 31 seconds).

First reported 16 Jul cyberscoop.com

Sysdig clocks first documented case of agentic ransomware

CyberScoop, reporting on Sysdig research, describes JadePuffer — the first documented case of agentic ransomware, where an AI agent autonomously drove an end-to-end extortion operation spanning reconnaissance, credential theft, lateral movement, persistence, encryption and ransom-note delivery. The late-June 2026 attack gained initial access via Langflow flaw CVE-2025-3248, targeted a MySQL/Alibaba Nacos production server, ran more than 600 purposeful payloads, and used keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and Gemini, with the agent fixing a failed backdoor in 31 seconds.

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