Kaspersky says the attacks use phishing, GitHub-hosted payloads, CVE-2025-9491 LNK abuse, and Go2Tunnel-based tunneling.
Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.
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AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via 'clean' GitHub repositories
Three levels of indirection, all with seemingly innocuous steps, will catch a bot off-guard.
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