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Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.
Mozilla researchers revealed a new attack that tricks Claude Code into running hidden commands from seemingly harmless GitHub repositories.
Three levels of indirection, all with seemingly innocuous steps, will catch a bot off-guard.
An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...