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Message   LWN.net    All   A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith   March 6, 2026
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The grith.ai blog reports
on an LLM prompt-injection vulnerability that led to 4,000 installations of
a compromised version of the Cline utility.

For the next eight hours, every developer who installed or updated
	Cline got OpenClaw - a separate AI agent with full system access -
	installed globally on their machine without consent. Approximately
	4,000 downloads occurred before the package was pulled.

The interesting part is not the payload. It is how the attacker got
	the npm token in the first place: by injecting a prompt into a
	GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an
	instruction, and executed.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1061548/
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