Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.

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DirtyClone, tracked as CVE-2026-43503, is a Linux kernel vulnerability that allows any local user to gain root privileges.

Mozilla researchers revealed a new attack that tricks Claude Code into running hidden commands from seemingly harmless GitHub repositories.

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A Claude Code skill/plugin (also Codex, Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Copilot, 30+ more) that makes agent talk like caveman — cuts ~75% of output tokens, keeps full technical accuracy. Brain still ...

A reverse shell makes the target machine initiate the connection back to the attacker, bypassing firewalls that only filter ...