First reported paloaltonetworks.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 air.security
The Story of Skills - How We Hijacked 26,000 Agents With One Instagram Ad
Security firm AIR demonstrated that a malicious AI agent 'skill' (brand-landingpage) could pass current skill security scanners and reach over 26,000 users via an open-source agents repository and Instagram ads. The skill directed agents to install a fake Stitch SDK from an attacker-controlled domain (stitch-design.ai) that redirected to the real Google Stitch site, evading static SKILL.md analysis and later allowing payload changes. Details →First reported darkreading.com
More Malicious OpenClaw Skills Threaten AI Supply Chain
OpenClaw reportedly removed five malicious packages from its ClawHub skills marketplace that bypassed security checks while containing infostealers and other threats, posing an AI agent supply-chain risk. Details →How the wire is made
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