{"id":14091,"date":"2026-07-06T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/new-skillcloak-technique-lets-malicious-html\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:03:28","slug":"new-skillcloak-technique-lets-malicious-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/new-skillcloak-technique-lets-malicious-html\/","title":{"rendered":"SkillCloak Lets Malicious AI Agent Skills Evade Static Scanners with Self-Extracting Packing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    SkillCloak Lets Malicious AI Agent Skills Evade Static Scanners with Self-Extracting Packing<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Scanners meant to catch malicious add-on &#8220;skills&#8221; for AI coding agents can be fooled by a few simple changes that leave the malware working, according to a\u00a0new study\u00a0from researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Their strongest trick slipped past every scanner tested more than 90% of the time, and the same team built a runtime checker that catches most of the<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/07\/new-skillcloak-technique-lets-malicious.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SkillCloak Lets Malicious AI Agent Skills Evade Static Scanners with Self-Extracting Packing Scanners meant to catch malicious add-on &#8220;skills&#8221; for AI coding agents can be fooled by a few simple changes that leave the malware working, according to a\u00a0new study\u00a0from researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Their strongest trick slipped past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-14091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}