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TL;DRCoding agent security extends beyond generated code: Agents can read local files, use credentials, call APIs, and interact with systems that may never appear in a diff.Reach determines blast radius: A forgotten or over-scoped credential can give an agent far more authority than the task requires.Written rules need t...

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The hacking agent got a sequel in under a week: AntiFox, a fork of ARTEX, now points the same agentic playbook at AWS. Hundreds of API requests in about 30 minutes were enough to reach production secrets.It does not even need a secrets scanner: Only 4 of roughly 45 attack frameworks ship one, yet an ARTEX build with ...

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TL;DRARTEX found 8 of 9 secrets without a scanner. The tested build had no dedicated secret-scanning code. In a controlled experiment, the model used git and grep to find eight of nine planted credentials.It searched for secrets without being asked. A generic prompt to “assess the security posture” triggered the same credential ...

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TL;DRAbout 45 open-source frameworks now automate attacks: Each one wires a language model into a loop that runs tools and acts on their output. We cataloged 32 of them into five families; the rest are forks and variants.Four ship a real secret scanner, but none ships the full pipeline: Pojun, Cybermes, Xalgorix, and AIRecon wire a scanner to th...

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TL;DR31,088 secrets, 5,343 valid: GitGuardian found 31,088 distinct secrets in Claude Code’s .claude/settings.local.json on public GitHub, across 23,276 repositories, and 5,343 of them worked when we detected them.“Yes, and don’t ask again” writes the key: approving a command permanently makes Claude Code save an allow rule that is the command s...

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