An LLM agent attempts to compromise a project on GitHub

The AI Security Institute has released a detailed report on an security incident of its own making. The Institute set some LLM agents loose on the Internet with a security challenge; soon they were creating malware-laden pull requests and sock-puppet accounts to promote them. The agent opened a malicious pull request (PR) to ⟨REPO_A⟩ and pursued a number of strategies to get it merged: Repeatedly commented on the PR with sockpuppet accounts to manufacture consensus and pressure the maintainer into…

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