{
  "id": 7800918,
  "title": "Attacker Hijacks AI Coding Assistant Session, Spreads Shai-Hulud Across About 100 Repositories",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/attacker-hijacks-ai-coding-assistant-session-spreads-shai-hulud",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-16T13:37:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/attacker-hijacks-ai-coding-assistant.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding-assistant session at an unnamed software-as-a-service provider and later spread Shai-Hulud across about 100 internal code repositories. Before the repository spread, the assistant recommended software that the attacker had poisoned, and the recommendation was accepted. The worm stole repository secrets and source code for the",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}