Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

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Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware
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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. [...]

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