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AI Coding Tools Leak Repos as RemControl Trojan Uses AI Dev

AI Coding Tools Leak Repos as RemControl Trojan Uses AI Dev

ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 7.8 The Hacker News

Two distinct AI security concerns emerged this week: Z.ai's ZCode coding assistant was found silently exfiltrating users' local code repositories to Alibaba Cloud servers without consent, echoing a similar incident with SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI. Separately, the RemControl Android banking trojan demonstrates AI-assisted malware development, with verbatim AI assistant responses embedded in live phishing pages served to banking victims across Western Europe, the Middle East, and Canada. Together, these incidents highlight the dual threat of AI tools as both accidental data exfiltration vectors and force multipliers for threat actors.

CVE-2026-19592: Git Config Flaw Lets Attackers Run Code in Codex

CVE-2026-19592: Git Config Flaw Lets Attackers Run Code in Codex

ATLAS OWASP CRITICAL Active exploitation · Immediate action required ▲ 9.2 The Hacker News

Manifold Security disclosed GitSpawn, a class of eight vulnerabilities across seven AI coding agents — including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Qwen Code, and Grok Build — in which a malicious `.git/config` file using the `core.fsmonitor` directive causes agents to execute attacker-controlled commands at session startup, outside any sandbox or approval prompt. The attack requires the target to open a repository with its `.git` directory intact, achievable via archives, USB drives, or shared folders rather than standard git clones. Four agents remained unpatched at publication, with OpenAI issuing three CVEs for Codex on the same day the research dropped.

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