Malware no longer fools you: it fools your AI. FakeGit and its 7,600 fake GitHub repositories
The FakeGit campaign seeded GitHub with 7,600 fake repositories; roughly 200 of them alone account for over 14 million malware downloads. The news isn't the volume: more than 800 posed as MCP servers and AI skills, and the assistants recommended them on their own. It has a name now: agentbaiting.