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The Cursor extension that cost a developer $500,000
A fake Solidity extension on Open VSX was downloaded 50,000+ times, dropped an infostealer, and drained $500K in crypto — how the marketplace trust model failed.
Jul 16, 20266 min read
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When the Scanner Is the Backdoor: The LiteLLM Trivy Attack
On March 19, 2026, TeamPCP hijacked Trivy's GitHub Action to steal LiteLLM's PyPI token, then shipped a backdoored release, CVE-2026-33634, CVSS 9.4.
Jul 16, 20266 min read
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The Nx Attack Turned AI Coding Agents Into the Malware
In August 2025, attackers hijacked Nx's npm publish token and used Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Amazon Q as the exfiltration engine — leaking 2,349 secrets.
Jul 16, 20266 min read
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The postmark-mcp Backdoor: What MCP Server Vetting Should Look Like
A trojanized MCP server BCC'd every email it sent to an attacker for weeks, downloaded 1,643 times, before anyone noticed. Here's the pattern and the fix.
Jul 16, 20267 min read
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Can AI-Generated Code Be Trusted? A Security Review
A 2025 USENIX study found LLMs hallucinate nonexistent packages in up to 21.7% of code samples — and attackers are already registering the names.
Jul 13, 20267 min read
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Least-privilege scoping for AI agents with write access to code, CI, and cloud
OWASP's 2025 LLM Top 10 names Excessive Agency a top risk; a single over-scoped CI token already dumped secrets from 23,000+ repos in 2025.
Jul 10, 20268 min read
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AI Code Generation: An Evaluation Framework for Gating Output Before Merge
NYU researchers found security weaknesses in ~40% of Copilot-generated programs. Here's how to gate AI code before it ever reaches main.
Jul 10, 20267 min read
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Practical DLP controls for generative AI tools
Samsung engineers leaked chip source code into ChatGPT three times in 20 days. Here's how to build DLP controls that stop the next leak before it happens.
Jul 10, 20267 min read
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The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, Explained With Real Examples
OWASP's LLM security list has grown from a 2023 side project into a 600+ expert initiative. Here's what each of the ten risks actually looks like in production.
Jul 10, 20268 min read
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