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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.
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Autonomous AI Intrusions Are Here: Lessons from the Hugging Face Compromise

An embracethered.com analysis examines two reported autonomous-AI intrusions: a Hugging Face compromise that Hugging Face says was driven end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent (entering via a malicious dataset and code-execution paths in its processing pipeline, then harvesting cloud/cluster credentials and moving laterally across 17,000+ recorded actions), and Sysdig's JADEPUFFER agent-driven ransomware that autonomously enumerated services, exploited Nacos auth bypass (CVE-2021-29441), forged JWTs, and self-corrected failed payloads to insert a backdoor admin. The write-up highlights a defensive asymmetry in which commercial-model safety guardrails blocked Hugging Face's own forensic analysis, forcing a pivot to a locally hosted open-weight model, and criticizes the lack of shared IOCs.
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