Socket reports an active campaign using 19 malicious npm packages. It targets AI development environments such as Claude, Cursor, and VS Code, stealing SSH keys, npm tokens, and API keys, and then propagates via a worm.
Techniques and defenses from the MINJA, InjecMEM, and ToxicSkills campaigns that poison AI agents’ memory files, and the fact that GPT-5.3-Codex achieved a 72% exploit success rate on EVMbench released by OpenAI and Paradigm. This article organizes how AI becomes both a target of attacks and a weapon for attackers.
This article explains how Cline’s issue‑triage bot was exploited via a three‑step chain—prompt injection, cache poisoning, and credential commingling—leading to an unauthorized package release that potentially affected about five million users.
A breakdown of how Notepad++'s WinGUp updater was hijacked through a hosting provider compromise and used to serve malicious binaries to selected users.
