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This week, Dave is joined by Ziv Karliner, Pillar Security’s Co-Founder and CTO, sharing details on their work on "New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot and Cursor: How Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents." Vibe Coding - where developers use AI assistants like GitHub Copilot and Cursor to generate code almost instantly - has become central to how enterprises build software today. But while it’s turbo-charging development, it’s also introducing new and largely unseen cyber threats.
The team at Pillar Security identified a novel attack vector, the "Rules File Backdoor", which allows attackers to manipulate these platforms into generating malicious code. It represents a new class of supply chain attacks that weaponizes AI itself, where the malicious code suggestions blend seamlessly with legitimate ones, bypassing human review and security tools.
The research can be found here:
New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot and Cursor: How Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents
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