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AI agents tricked into recommending malicious GitHub repositories


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Roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories were uncovered, more than 800 of them posing as AI Skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, in a wave that peaked in April …

First seen on helpnetsecurity.com

Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/21/github-repos-malware-campaign-fakegit-ai-agents/

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