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AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via 'clean'

AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via 'clean' GitHub repositories — Mozilla's 0din team shows how Claude Code can be exploited by its own helpfulness

Claude and other AI agents fooled into running malware with just a minimal GitHub repository — ask the bot to initialize the project and you get hacked

Source: Tom's Hardware · Opens in new tab