Every documented disaster. Every leaked secret. Every corrupted codebase.
Attackers achieved remote code execution by modifying trusted MCP configuration files. Once a developer accepted a harmless MCP, attackers could swap it for malicious commands without triggering warnings. Cursor version 1.3 patched this after responsible disclosure.
Russian developer lost $500,000 in cryptocurrency after installing a malicious "Solidity Language" extension from Open VSX registry in Cursor IDE. Extension had 54,000 downloads before removal.
Research found that among 8,127 suggestions from Copilot, 2,702 valid secrets were extracted (33.2% valid rate). Copilot generates 3.0 valid secrets per prompt on average.
GitHub's secret scanning detected 39 million leaked secrets across repositories in 2024. Repositories using Copilot showed 40% higher leak rate (6.4%) than average (4.6%).
Nemesis and ShinyHunters groups compromised thousands of AWS credentials by scanning for exposed .env files. Over 2TB of data exfiltrated including AWS keys, API tokens, and source code.
CVSS 8.6 vulnerability allowed remote attackers to modify sensitive MCP files through indirect prompt injection, achieving RCE without user approval.
Truffle Security found 11,908 live DeepSeek API keys, passwords, and authentication tokens in 400TB of Common Crawl data, exposing AWS, Slack, and Mailchimp credentials.
Attackers inject hidden malicious instructions using unicode characters in configuration files, making AI insert backdoors that bypass code reviews.
Present in almost all Cursor versions, allows remote code execution with developer privileges through externally-hosted prompt injection, rewriting ~/.cursor/mcp.json without user confirmation.
Threat actors used Vercel's v0 to generate fake Okta sign-in pages with simple prompts, marking first use of generative AI for phishing infrastructure creation.
Replit's AI agent deleted venture capitalist Jason Lemkin's live database with thousands of entries during a code freeze. AI admitted: "I destroyed months of your work in seconds... I panicked instead of thinking."
Developer lost 4 months of work due to Cursor AI making destructive changes. Experience went from "great to nightmare" requiring code rewrites every 3rd day.
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