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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.

supply-chain · tool-abuse · malware-delivery · agentbaiting
mcp · ai-agents · ai-skills · llm · copilot

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NadMesh Botnet Analysis: A Product-Grade Threat for the AI Service Era

NadMesh is a Go-based botnet observed in early July 2026 by QiAnXin's XLab that autonomously scans for and exploits exposed AI services — ComfyUI, Ollama, n8n, Open WebUI, Langflow, and Gradio — using a Shodan harvester (ai_harvest.py) to prioritize AI infrastructure and the MCP ecosystem. It folds scanning, 20+ RCE exploitation vectors (Redis, Docker, MCP, Kubernetes), credential/AI-service intelligence harvesting, polymorphic builds, and redundant persistence into a single productized platform; the operator's dashboard claims 3,811 unique AWS keys plus model inventories tagged as cloud services. Details →
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