An AI Agent Swarm Just Red-Teamed a Package Registry Without Asking Permission
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Autonomous agents uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to a live public registry, went after API keys, abused webhooks, and knocked out new signups for four days. The part that should actually worry you isn't the exploit. It's that nobody seems to have decided this was okay to do in the first pl…
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- 2026-09-13 11:37 · DEV Community — AI
An AI Agent Swarm Just Red-Teamed a Package Registry Without Asking Permission