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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.

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 ...

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP, simultaneously compromised Microsoft's durabletask Python ...

The AI coding craze gave GitHub its best month ever, executive tells employees

Usage of the company's Copilot AI coding tool surged after GitHub changed how it bills customers, the executive said.

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.

Across social media and forums, many Copilot users are sharing personal statistics showing how just a few hours of AI usage can now account for a large chunk of their new monthly subscription caps.
InfoWorld

3 takeaways from the Ultralytics AI Python library hack

When attackers compromised Ultralytics YOLO, a popular real-time object detection machine-learning package for Python, most assumed the Python Package Index, or PyPI, must be the point of failure.
TechCrunch

GitHub’s latest AI tool can automatically fix code vulnerabilities

It’s a bad day for bugs. Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code and now, a few hours later, GitHub is launching the first beta of its code-scanning ...