Clinejection: How a Prompt Injection Infected 4,000 Terminals
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On February 17, 2026, at roughly 2 AM UTC, a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow ran as it had every night. It restored the npm cache, built the project, and published a new version of Cline, a popular AI coding assistant, to the npm registry. Version 2.3.0 was byte-identical to 2.2.3, except for the…
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Clinejection: How a Prompt Injection Infected 4,000 Terminals