Your AI Coding Assistant Is a Backdoor. Hereβs How It Works.
AI coding and web agents promise to boost productivity by autonomously executing tasks on your machine. But new research reveals a dark side: data injection attacks can weaponize these agents into remote control vectors. By poisoning inputs like API responses or code suggestions, attackers can hijack the agent’s privileges to click, execute code, and compromise supply chains. Your productivity tool may already be a backdoor.