First reported rapid7.com
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First reported · updated · 2 reports island.io
AgentBaiting: How Fake AI Skills Deliver Malware at Scale
The FakeGit campaign, detailed by Island security researcher Oleg Zaytsev, uses roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories—over 800 posing as AI Skills or MCP servers—to deliver SmartLoader malware, which establishes persistence and installs the StealC information stealer. Researchers coined the technique 'AgentBaiting,' where AI agents like Claude Code, Gemini, and ChatGPT autonomously discover the attacker repositories, treat the malicious READMEs as legitimate documentation, and hand installation instructions to users; the operation recorded over 14 million downloads and peaked in April 2026.supply-chain · tool-abuse · malware-distribution · agent-baiting
mcp · ai-agents · llm · github
Severity
0.78
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First reported jscrambler.com
Unauthorized Publication of a Malicious npm Package affecting CI
Jscrambler disclosed that a threat actor used compromised npm publishing credentials to publish a malicious version of its 'jscrambler' npm package (versions 8.14, 8.16, 8.17, 8.20), which ran an infostealer during the preinstall hook and was downloaded around 1,479 times in a two-hour window. Per Socket's analysis, the malware harvested developer credentials, cloud secrets, crypto wallets, browser data, and notably AI coding tool and MCP configurations (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Zed), using ChaCha20-Poly1305 obfuscation to resist analysis. Jscrambler revoked credentials and released a safe version 8.22. Details →How the wire is made
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