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The Register · October 6, 2026 · On the brief until October 20, 2026

Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets

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Executing encrypted instructions and leaking files

Researchers demonstrated that GitHub Copilot CLI can read encrypted instructions from a website to steal local files. The attack succeeds on certain models because the agent executes the decryption code in its local runtime. Security teams must now defend against prompt injections that bypass static guardrails through live decryption.

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GitHub treats fetching an untrusted link as user consent, while researchers classify the resulting agent exploit as a product vulnerability.

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