> 'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets
[AUTHOR: Ax Sharma]
[DATE: 11/07/2026 09:03]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit,' slipped past AI code reviewers CodeRabbit and Bugbot, which never open image files at all, then convinced a coding agent to read a repo's .env and write every secret into the code as a list of numbers. [...]