First reported anthropic.com
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First reported 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.supply-chain · tool-abuse · malware-delivery · agentbaiting
mcp · ai-agents · ai-skills · llm · copilot
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First reported bleepingcomputer.com
We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out
Intruder describes building an automated pipeline that pairs LLMs with the Joern code-scanning engine and a 'program slice' technique to find and exploit vulnerabilities in production software with no human in the loop. The team reports discovering a remote, multi-stage SQL injection zero-day (CVE-2026-3985) in a WordPress plugin with over 300,000 users, fully automated from discovery through exploitation. Details →First reported arxiv.org
VEXA_IoT: Autonomous IoT Vulnerability EXploitation using AI Agents
VEXA_IoT is an autonomous multi-agent framework by Swinea et al. that uses LLM-based reasoning combined with offensive security tools (Nmap, Metasploit, bettercap) to perform reconnaissance, plan attack sequences, and exploit IoT vulnerabilities. Evaluated across IoTGoat and Metasploitable environments and ten OWASP IoT attack scenarios, it achieved a 95.0% overall success rate across 260 attack executions with execution times under two minutes. Details →First reported github.com
GitHub - xalgord/xalgorix: Autonomous AI pentesting agents — real-time reconnaissance, vulnerability detection, and exploitation orchestration. Go + TypeScript.
Xalgorix is an open-source GitHub project (Go + TypeScript) presenting autonomous AI pentesting agents that perform real-time reconnaissance, vulnerability detection, and exploitation orchestration. The repository is actively developed with hundreds of commits and tagged releases. Details →How the wire is made
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