{"id":9881,"date":"2026-09-16T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/attacker-hijacks-ai-coding-assistant-session-spreads-shai-hulud-across-about-100-repositories\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:13:33","slug":"attacker-hijacks-ai-coding-assistant-session-spreads-shai-hulud-across-about-100-repositories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/attacker-hijacks-ai-coding-assistant-session-spreads-shai-hulud-across-about-100-repositories\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacker Hijacks AI Coding Assistant Session, Spreads Shai-Hulud Across About 100 Repositories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding-assistant session at an unnamed software-as-a-service provider and later spread\u00a0Shai-Hulud\u00a0across about 100 internal code repositories.<\/p>\n<p>Before the repository spread, the assistant recommended software that the attacker had poisoned, and the recommendation was accepted. The worm stole repository secrets and source code for the\u00a0Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding-assistant session at an unnamed software-as-a-service provider and later spread\u00a0Shai-Hulud\u00a0across about 100 internal code repositories.<\/p>\n<p>Before the repository spread, the assistant recommended software that the attacker had poisoned, and the recommendation was accepted. The worm stole repository secrets and source code for the\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding-assistant session at an unnamed software-as-a-service provider and later spread\u00a0Shai-Hulud\u00a0across about 100 internal code repositories. Before the repository spread, the assistant recommended software that the attacker had poisoned, and the recommendation was accepted. The worm stole repository secrets and source code for the\u00a0Mandiant says an attacker hijacked&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/attacker-hijacks-ai-coding-assistant-session-spreads-shai-hulud-across-about-100-repositories\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attacker Hijacks AI Coding Assistant Session, Spreads Shai-Hulud Across About 100 Repositories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}