
Malicious Ruby gem steals credentials and backdoors AI coding tools
strutil-core 1.0.1 was live about five hours; revoking a stolen GitHub token can wipe the home folder.
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strutil-core 1.0.1 was live about five hours; revoking a stolen GitHub token can wipe the home folder.

Internal October guidance limits Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft GitHub to engineers only after productivity and risk review.
Flaws in Codex and VS Code remain unpatched; Cursor silently fixed code execution and GitHub fixed Copilot spoofing in 1.1.29.

Check Point says it searches local app storage rather than exploiting a flaw in the targeted AI assistants.

ACM Technology Policy Council authors warn AI-generated code is overwhelming thinly funded open-source maintainers, raising software supply chain security risks.
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