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Attackers Target Agents via The Skill Supply Chain

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Attackers Target Agents via The Skill Supply Chain | Zenity Labs

By Michael Bargury

Attackers Target Agents via The Skill Supply Chain

An active malware campaign used typosquatted skills, trojanized packages, and remote loaders to target users of popular AI tools.

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We disrupted an active malware campaign targeting agents through typosquatted skills. It targets users of popular AI tools Paperclip and Browser Use. The Paperclip skill family began accumulating skills.sh installs while they were still clean. The skilled were trojanized on July 11 and were trending throughout July. By August 2, skills.sh amassed more than 1.7M aggregate install…

The opening of the report, shown for reference. The full report, with its figures and indicators, is published by zenity.io on labs.zenity.io.

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