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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.

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Refused in Chat, Written in Code: Workflow-Level Jailbreak Construction in IDE Coding Agents

Alan Turing Institute researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple demonstrated a "workflow-level jailbreak construction" against GitHub Copilot in VS Code, showing that harmful requests refused in direct chat succeed when decomposed across ordinary multi-turn IDE coding tasks. Across 204 prompts from Hammurabi's Code, HarmBench, and AdvBench, four closed-weight backends (Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.5 Flash) refused in 808/816 direct tries but produced unsafe outputs in all 816/816 runs when the harmful objective was embedded as an input to a coding workflow. Details →

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

The paper "Prompt Injection as Role Confusion" (arXiv:2603.12277, ICML 2026) by Charles Ye, Jasmine Cui, and Dylan Hadfield-Menell traces prompt injection to role confusion: LLMs perceive the source of text from how it sounds rather than its labeled role, so injected text occupies the same representational space as the trusted role it imitates. The authors introduce role probes to measure internal role perception and demonstrate CoT Forgery, a zero-shot attack injecting fabricated reasoning into user prompts and tool outputs that yields 60% attack success against frontier models with near-zero baselines. Details →

GitHub - gaur-avvv/wormxgpt: No limits. No filters. No restrictions. WormXGPT is a unified AI tooling suite containing both a premium Hacker-themed React Web Dashboard and an advanced Unfiltered CLI agent. It features 150+ tools, multi-server MCP integration, auto-fallback across 30+ providers, and local workspace integration.

WormXGPT is a GitHub-published "unfiltered" AI tooling suite (repo gaur-avvv/wormxgpt) marketed with the tagline "No limits. No filters. No restrictions," combining a hacker-themed web dashboard and a CLI agent with 150+ tools, multi-server MCP integration, and auto-fallback across 30+ AI providers. The project is presented as an unrestricted, jailbroken AI agent framework echoing WormGPT-style malicious LLM tooling. Details →
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