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.

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

ReliaQuest observed attackers generating OAuth tokens and using Python scripts to query Salesforce's API for extended periods, as data was stolen. Huntress later disclosed that its own Salesforce ...

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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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 ...

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A hacker group stole data from more than 9,000 schools using an exploit in Instructure's service. Now the House Homeland Security Committee is getting involved. Tyler is a writer for CNET covering ...