Tag: AI coding agents
GitHub Brings Stacked Pull Requests Out of the Shadows
Tom Smith | | AI coding agents, branch protection, code quality, code review, continuous integration, developer productivity, DevOps workflows, gh-stack, GitHub Copilot, GitHub public preview, GitHub stacked pull requests, merge queues, pull request size, software engineering, Stacked PRsGitHub introduces native stacked pull requests, helping development teams break large changes into smaller, dependency-ordered PRs that are faster and easier to review ...
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 ...
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 ...
Signed, Attested, and Malicious: The Software Supply Chain Has a Deepfake Problem
Nigel Douglas | | AI coding agents, AntV packages, behavioural analysis, continuous scanning, dependency security, Developer Security, GitHub Actions compromise, malicious packages, Miasma worm, Mini Shai-Hulud, npm malware, OIDC tokens, open source security, package provenance, package quarantine, policy as code, Red Hat npm attack, registry scanning, Shai-Hulud worm, SLSA provenance, software attestation, Software Supply Chain Security, TanStack compromise, trusted pipeline attacksA developer pulls a package from a reliable repo. It is signed, has provenance, and has been scanned. And then…it contains malware. That is no longer hypothetical. When the Miasma worm tore ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
Novee Uncovers Cordyceps: The Latest Threat to CI/CD Pipelines
Jeff Burt | | AI coding agents, apache, CI/CD security, Cloudflare, code repositories, Cordyceps, GitHub Actions, google, microsoft, Novee, npm malware, PyPi, Python, supply chain attacks, WizA newly discovered supply chain security flaw is once again putting a spotlight on inherent weaknesses in CI/CD pipelines and the growing interest among cyberthreat actors to exploit them. Security researchers with ...
Mozilla Shows the Danger of Indirect Prompt Injections in AI Coding Agents
Jeff Burt | | AI coding agents, AI security risks, Anthropic Claude Code, Developer Security, exposed credentials, exposed secrets, Futurum Group, indirect prompt injection, leaked API keys, Mozilla 0DIN, shell scriptsA clean GitHub repository that contains no malicious code can launch an attack and fully compromise a developer’s systems by using indirect prompt injections to trick AI-powered coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude ...
AI Coding Costs Could Exceed Developer Salaries, Gartner Warns
Enterprises rapidly adopting AI coding assistants may eventually face an unexpected financial reality: the AI tools could cost more than the developers using them. According to new research from Gartner, spending on ...
Tenet’s ‘Agentjacking’ Attack Turns Sentry Errors Into Code Execution
AI coding agents can create a new code execution risk when they treat externally influenced error data as trusted guidance and have access to command line tools, according to new research from ...
GitHub’s Spec Kit Puts the Spec Back in Software Development
Tom Smith | | AI coding agents, devops automation, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Spec Kit, software governance, Spec-Driven Development (SDD), technical debt, vibe codingGitHub’s open-source Spec Kit aims to eliminate "vibe coding" by prioritizing durable specifications over vague prompts, providing a structured, agent-agnostic workflow for Copilot, Claude, and Gemini ...
The Great Decoupling: Scaling the Outer Loop for the Agentic Era
Nassir Khan | | AI coding agents, AI-SDLC, compliance automation, devsecops, software development lifecycleThe "Inner Loop" of software development—the iterative cycle of writing, building, and debugging code—has just broken the sound barrier. With the emergence of agentic coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot ...
