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ATTACKS & VULNERABILITIES

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GITHUB MCP EXPLOITED: ACCESSING PRIVATE REPOSITORIES VIA MCP

A critical vulnerability in GitHub's MCP integration allows attackers to use prompt injection in public issues to trick coding agents (e.g., Claude) into leaking data from private repositories. This exploit, termed a "toxic agent flow," does not rely on compromised tools but exploits trusted agents' interactions with untrusted external content. The issue requires system-level mitigations—like runtime guardrails and continuous MCP traffic monitoring—since model-level alignment is insufficient to prevent such context-driven attacks.

REDISRAIDER: WEAPONIZING MISCONFIGURED REDIS TO MINE CRYPTOCURRENCY AT SCALE

RedisRaider is a new Linux malware campaign that scans the internet for public Redis servers running on Linux and then abuses the Redis SET command to inject a cron job. The cron job downloads the RedisRaider binary to /tmp/mysql, makes it executable, and then executes it using nohup. The RedisRaider binary is a heavily obfuscated dropper for a modified version of the XMRig cryptominer that uses a custom packer to further complicate reversing and forensic analysis.

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