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

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Mozilla researchers revealed a new attack that tricks Claude Code into running hidden commands from seemingly harmless GitHub repositories.

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

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

JFrog found malicious npm packages that deploy a Windows RAT to steal Chrome credentials, run commands, and transfer files.

An attacker broke into competitive-intelligence vendor Klue, stole OAuth tokens its customers use to connect to Salesforce ...

A disclosed Splunk Enterprise vulnerability, CVE-2026-20253, is under active exploitation and can be chained into ...

A reverse shell makes the target machine initiate the connection back to the attacker, bypassing firewalls that only filter ...

Proofpoint says UNK_DeadDrop sent 250+ phishing emails to nearly 100 firms, using GitHub and VS Code lures to steal credentials and wallet data.

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