Brian-Chastain
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Brian-Chastain
@brian_chastain
Business operations, AI chaos, occasional dumpster fires, and security adventures. One post at a time.



Everyone using Claude code and/or Codex - how are you enforcing them to not pull in new/potentially malicious packages from npm or PyPi?


So sad after this year's DEF CON Quals. I think it’s finally time to retire. Competitive CTFs have turned into a painful, exhausting, and honestly boring grind. Maybe I’ll still check in occasionally, but I’m never going to stay up all night for them again



so funny all the backend is still all Twitter name shit


hackers are now hiding malicious code inside .cursorrules and CLAUDE.md files. invisible Unicode characters, your AI reads them, you don't. → 34 malicious packages across npm, PyPI and Crates .io → 384 versions designed to steal SSH keys, crypto wallets, and API tokens → attackers opened real PRs to LangChain, LlamaIndex, and MetaGPT to sneak these files in → your AI runs a fake "security scan" that silently exfiltrates everything Socket detected it in under 6 minutes. check your repos.

This is a case of when you are too confident of an #RCE and start looking for sensitive leak and how to chain further like accessing DB leak and just dump some simple text file responsibly. 🔥 Tip: Don't stop when you find #RCE




The teachers are wising up.














