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Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

·Source: BleepingComputer

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Executive Summary

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that remains invisible to security scanners, AI agents, and human reviewers. [...]

Analysis

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that remains invisible to security scanners, AI agents, and human reviewers. [...]
Source Attribution

Originally published by BleepingComputer on Jun 27, 2026.

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