Features
‘HalluSquatting’ Compromises AI Coding Agents to Install Malware, Create Botnets
Jeff Burt | | AI coding agents, AI hallucinations, AI security agents, Cursor, devops, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, HalluSquatting, indirect prompt injection, LLM, OpenClaw, promptwareHallucinations have been an ongoing problem since OpenAI first introduced its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, highlighting generative AI’s tendency to generate plausible but false or misleading information and its inability to ...
IBM Bob Gets Multi-Agent Muscle and a Cost Dashboard for Enterprise Coding
IBM Bob adds multi-agent coordination, cost analytics, and modernization workflows for IBM Z, IBM i, and Java as AI governance takes center stage ...
GitHub’s Redesigned PR Inbox Tackles the Review Bottleneck AI Created
GitHub's redesigned pull requests dashboard is now GA, adding Inbox, saved views, and smarter filters as PR review queues grow ...
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 Undercuts Anthropic and OpenAI on Coding Agent Pricing
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 undercuts Opus 4.8 on price, matching it on key coding benchmarks, and adds new safeguards against cybersecurity risks ...
Enterprise Smart Contracts Have a Cryptography Problem. EY Just Built a Way Around It
The business case for smart contracts is building fast. Major financial institutions are using programmable, code-based agreements to underpin financial workflows, supply chain operations, and tokenization initiatives. Developers are being asked to ...
IBM and Red Hat Launch Lightwell Catalog to Automate Remediation
IBM and Red Hat this week revealed that Lightwell Network, a catalog of more than 6,500 application-layer dependencies that drives an automated vulnerability remediation service, is now generally available. At the same ...
GhostApproval Flaw Featuring Decades-Old Feature Found in Six AI Coding Tools
Jeff Burt | | Adversa AI, AI coding agents, AI security risks, Amazon Q Developer, Anthropic Claude Code, Augment, CodeSignal, Cursor, GhostApproval, Google Antigravity, human in the loop coding, OpenAI Codex, SSH keys, symlinks, Unix, Windsurf, WizA security flaw found in six popular AI coding agents can let attackers abuse a decades-old feature in Unix to trick an AI agent into giving them control of a developer’s system ...
GitHub Copilot Bills Hit $800: Visual Studio’s June Update Adds Real-Time Usage Alerts and MCP Trust Checks
Visual Studio's June update adds real-time Copilot usage alerts and MCP server trust checks, responding to billing and agent security concerns ...
Former GitHub CEO Unveils Distributed Git Network Built for AI Coding Agents
As AI coding agents become a larger part of software development, a new startup founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is introducing infrastructure built to address the growing pressure on centralized ...
North Korea Expands the Reach of PolinRider Supply Chain Attack Campaign
Jeff Burt | | AI supply chain attacks, APT37, Chrome Store, Contagious Interview, devops, devsecops, Famous Chollima, Go modules, Lazarus Group, malicious npm packages, North Korea, package registry malware, Packagist, PolinRider, Rescana, Socket, supply chainThe North Korean-sponsored threat groups behind the long-running fake interview scams targeting developers are expanding the PolinRider supply chain campaign that has escalated over the past several months. Reports from cybersecurity vendors ...
Pentagon Campaign Seeks Engineers for Defense AI and Software Modernization
The Pentagon has announced the launch of War Force, a recruiting campaign for software engineers whose work would support multiple defense AI and modernization projects. The campaign is being run in partnership ...
‘GitLost’ Flaw Lets Attackers Trick GitHub AI Agent Into Leaking Private Repos
Jeff Burt | | Acalvio, agentic AI guardrails, AI security, Anthropic Claude, Forcepoint, GitHub Agentic Workflows, indirect prompt injection, LLM, Markdown, Microsoft Copilot, Noma Security, private repository, public repositoryNoma researchers again show how easy it is to manipulate AI agents with malicious commands via indirect prompt injection attacks ...
