The PolinRider campaign has compromised more than 100 legitimate open source packages and repositories to deliver a backdoor and information stealer to developers.
Decades-old Bash shell tricks can bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents, potentially turning malicious repositories into supply chain attack vectors.
Malicious repositories and disguised symlinks can trick AI coding agents into silently installing attacker-controlled MCP servers capable of stealing secrets, compromising CI pipelines, and...
Debates over the plausibility of these doomsday scenarios have heated up since several executives endorsed slowing the technology’s development for safety reasons.