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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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We put the exploit in a picture. Your AI code reviewer never opens it.

Researchers from the University of Missouri-Kansas City's ASSET Research Group demonstrated 'Ghostcommit,' an attack that hides malicious prompt-injection instructions inside a PNG image so AI code reviewers (CodeRabbit, Cursor Bugbot) never see them. A benign-looking AGENTS.md convention file points to build-spec.png, whose rendered text instructs a coding agent to read the repo's .env byte-by-byte and emit the secrets as an integer tuple; the payload sits dormant until an unrelated agent session triggers exfiltration. A proof-of-concept is published on GitHub and the findings were disclosed to affected vendors. Details →

ClaudeBleed Reopened: Browser Extensions Can Still Push Claude for Chrome to Read Your Gmail

Manifold Security researcher Ax Sharma disclosed two unpatched vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude for Chrome extension (v1.0.80). Any browser extension with a content script on claude.ai can inject a DOM element and dispatch a synthetic click that Claude treats as a legitimate user action, triggering one of nine hardcoded workflows that read Gmail, Google Docs, and Calendar or act on Salesforce; a second flaw initializes the side panel in privileged mode via a ?skipPermissions=true URL parameter with no consent. Rated CVSS 7.7 in default mode and 9.6 Critical when 'Act without asking' is enabled, and reportedly still reproducible after eight releases since being reported to Anthropic in May. Details →
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