Malicious AI ‘skills’ turned agents into credential thieves, at scale
07-08-2026 19:46 via thenextweb.com

Malicious AI ‘skills’ turned agents into credential thieves, at scale

Security researchers at Zenity Labs uncovered a credential-stealing campaign on skills.sh, a public registry of add-ons for AI agents run by Vercel. They unveiled the research at the Black Hat conference. Attackers had cloned real skills into typosquatted look-alikes. One tainted family racked up over 1.7 million installs, though Zenity stresses that is aggregate downloads, […]
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