Attacker Hijacks AI Coding Assistant Session, Spreads Shai-Hulud Across About 100 Repositories

Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding-assistant session at an unnamed software-as-a-service provider and later spread Shai-Hulud across about 100 internal code repositories. Before the repository spread, the assistant recommended software that the attacker had poisoned, and the...

CVE-2026-54561

MCP Memory Keeper is an MCP server for persistent context management in AI coding assistants. Prior to 0.13.0, contextimport in src/index.ts passes the caller-controlled filePath directly to fs.readFileSync without restricting the path to an export directory. An MCP client, including an LLM agent...

Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets

Threat actors associated with Aurora aka Aur0ra ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence AI-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent analyses are based on exposed...

Exploit for Improper Output Neutralization for Logs in Neo4J

CVE-2026-1337 – AI Coding Assistant Prompt Injection to RCE !...

Malicious code in monty-data (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector 1d234eb20e94a8d34b23f4aed0a562eb1c038ce5bd603856546c970152a70ac5 On npm install, the package's postinstall hook package.json declares "postinstall": "node bin/cli.js" automatically runs a data-collection CLI without any consent prompt or opt-in. The CLI walks the...

OpenClaude security vulnerabilities

OpenClaude is an open-source coding assistant CLI developed by Gitlawb. Versions of OpenClaude prior to 0.5.1 contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from logical flaws in the bashToolHasPermission function, which could allow for path traversal sequences to bypass...

CVE-2023-46248

Cody is an artificial intelligence AI coding assistant. The Cody AI VSCode extension versions 0.10.0 through 0.14.0 are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution under certain conditions. An attacker in control of a malicious repository could modify the Cody configuration file .vscode/cody.json and...