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AI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel

By Farukh Rakhimov, Head of Compliance, Data Protection and Information Security at AdTech Holding Roughly 7,600 fake GitHub repositories, 6,600 fraudulent profiles and more than 14 million downloads: that is the scale of FakeGit, a malware campaign documented by Island in July 2026. Over 800 repos…

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  1. 2026-09-23 07:44 · AI News
    AI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel

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