Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 6, 2026Published at 2:03 AM EDT · New York
The EviLLM attack injected flaws from 13 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classes, a standard catalog of software flaw types, and 17 of 21 study participants did not notice them. A separate paper uses grounded LLM agents to find design flaws before any code is written.
Most security research on AI code generation asks whether models write insecure code by accident. Beware EviLLM, by Zeezoo Ryu, Sukarno Mertoguno and colleagues, studies deliberate sabotage. The threat model is a third-party adversary with…
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The Agent Skill Supply Chain Becomes an Attack Surface
As agents load third-party skills, tools and MCP servers at runtime, the gap between what a skill advertises and what it actually does becomes a recurring security failure mode, driving registries, attestation and zero-trust verification into the agent stack the way package signing came to software repositories.
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