SkillVetBench: LLM-As-Judge for Multi-Dimensional Security Risk Evaluation in Open-Source LLM Agent Skills

Open-source LLM agent ecosystems are growing rapidly, yet the security of community-contributed skills - modular tool definitions that extend agent capabilities - remains largely unvetted. The gap we fill: existing scanners operate at the code layer and are structurally blind to instruction-layer...

ALERT: Malicious Amazon Alexa Skills Can Easily Bypass Vetting Process

Researchers have uncovered gaps in Amazon's skill vetting process for the Alexa voice assistant ecosystem that could allow a malicious actor to publish a deceptive skill under any arbitrary developer name and even make backend code changes after approval to trick users into giving up sensitive...