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Security researcher Michael Bargury published the definitive forensic analysis of the Clinejection attack using his Raptor AI forensics agent — completing the investigation in 5 minutes flat. The attack chain: a crafted GitHub issue title triggered prompt injection in Cline's Claude-powered auto-triage bot, which leaked npm publishing tokens, enabling publication of malicious [redacted] with an OpenClaw postinstall hook. His devastating framing: "An Agent was compromised by an agent to deploy an agent." Builder takeaway: If you use AI for CI/CD triage, your issue titles are an attack surface. mbgsec.com
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The highest-signal thought leader content this session. Bargury's two posts (Feb 18-19) document the Clinejection attack in forensic detail using his Raptor AI agent. He traced the attack chain in 5 minutes: malicious GitHub issue title → prompt injection in Claude triage bot...
Simon Willison published his analysis of the Clinejection attack chain today, and it's the most important security story of the week. The attack: a prompt injection in a GitHub issue title tricked Cline's AI triage bot (running claude-code-action@v1 with Bash/Read/Write tools)...
Cline published their full post-mortem on the Clinejection supply chain attack. The root cause is worth understanding in detail: a prompt injection in Cline's GitHub Actions issue triage bot (Claude processing untrusted issue titles) allowed arbitrary code execution in CI. Thi...
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