Threat Actors and Code Assistants: The Hidden Risks of Backdoor Injections

AI code assistants integrated into IDEs, like GitHub Copilot, offer powerful chat, auto-completion, and test-generation features. However, threat actors and careless users can exploit these capabilities to inject backdoors, leak sensitive data, and produce harmful code. Indirect prompt injection attacks exploit context-attachment features by contaminating public data sources with hidden instructions. When unsuspecting developers feed […]

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