Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...

Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
SecurityWeek

Researchers Demo New Claude Code Attack Using Harmless-Looking Repositories to Hijack Developer Machines

Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.
Tech Times

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

Open-source agentic coding model Ornith-1.0, released today under the MIT license, uses a self-improving reinforcement ...
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AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via 'clean' GitHub repositories

Three levels of indirection, all with seemingly innocuous steps, will catch a bot off-guard.