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FakeGit Targets AI Coding Agents with Malicious GitHub Repos
Jeff Burt | | AgentBaiting, AI coding agents, AI supply chain risk, Anthropic Claude Code, fake repositories, FakeGit, github, Google Gemini, Island, MCP Server, OpenAI ChatGPT, SmartLoader, StealCThreat actors continue to find new ways to incorporate AI into schemes aimed at luring developers into downloading malware from fake repositories. The latest example involves almost 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that ...
New Copilot Dashboard Shows Enterprises Which Developers Are Actually Using AI — Not Just Who’s Logged In
GitHub's new Copilot dashboard shows enterprises which developers use AI deeply — turning adoption data into a real productivity business case ...
Security Risks from AI Coding Agents Expand Beyond the Sandbox: Pillar
Jeff Burt | | AI code assistants, AI coding agents, AI Developers, AI sandbox, AI security risks, Cursor, Cymulate, Google Antigravity, Google Gemini, OpenAI Codex, Pillar Security, prompt injectionAI coding assistants have become an essential part of developers’ work, automating many of the repetitive tasks – think boilerplate coding and scaffolding – that in the past ate up a lot ...
xAI Open-Sources Grok Build Coding Agent After Cloud Upload Exposes SSH Keys, Repos
Tom Smith | | AI agent governance, AI coding agent, Apache 2.0, credential exposure, developer privacy, devops security, github, Grok Build, open-source coding agent, Repository Security, source code security, xAIxAI has published the full source code for Grok Build, its terminal-based AI coding agent, on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license. The release lands three days after a security researcher showed ...
HashiCorp Introduces tfpolicy, a Native Policy Framework for Terraform
Tom Smith | | Cloud Security, compliance automation, Hashicorp, HCL, HCP Terraform, infrastructure as code, Infrastructure Governance, OPA, Open Policy Agent, platform engineering, policy as code, Sentinel, Terraform, tfpolicyHashiCorp’s new tfpolicy framework brings native policy-as-code governance to Terraform using HCL and lifecycle-aware infrastructure checks ...
Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code to Unify AI Development from First Prompt to Production
Jon Swartz | | acquisition, Agentic Workflows, AI agents, AI models, Anaconda, Enterprise AI, gitlab, JetBrains, Kilo Code, Metaflow, Outerbounds, VS CodeAnaconda Inc. has acquired Kilo Code, an open-source, model-agnostic platform that embeds artificial intelligence (AI) agents directly into developer workflows. The acquisition integrates Kilo’s rapid-growth community of over three million developers into ...
Anaconda Doesn’t Want to Be Just the Python Company Anymore
The question is no longer whether Anaconda wants to be more than the Python company. It is how much of the AI development stack DeSanto ultimately intends to own ...
GitHub API Abuse, ‘Ghost’ Accounts Part of Malicious Efforts to Map Organizations
Jeff Burt | | Cofense, Data Exfiltration, data mapping, data scraping, datadog, Fortran, GitHub API, GitHub ghost accounts, gitlab, GraphQL, personal tokens, REST APIsDatadog researchers uncover months-long overlapping campaigns to scrape data about companies and their developers ...
‘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 ...
