25 Jul, 2026

Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity hit by sandbox escapes

Security researchers broke out of the sandboxes in four widely used AI coding agents, including Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, Google’s Gemini CLI and Antigravity, without attacking the sandbox head-on. The agent stays inside the box and follows every rule. It just writes a file that a trusted tool outside the box later runs, loads, or scans, […]

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VSCode IDE forks expose users to “recommended extension” attacks

Popular AI-powered integrated development environment solutions, such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae, recommend extensions that are non-existent in the OpenVSX registry, allowing threat actors to claim the namespace and upload malicious extensions. These AI-assisted IDEs are forked from Microsoft VSCode, but cannot use the extensions in the official store due to licensing restrictions. […]

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