Attackers are beginning to hide malicious activity inside trusted AI coding assistants and CI pipelines, mimicking routine developer and automation behavior so closely that some attack techniques can evade current detection tools entirely. One early manifestation of the emerging threat is Sandworm_Mode, a self-propagating worm that spreads through malicious npm packages. Researchers at Socket Security who discovered the threat earlier this year have described it as a Shai-Hulud-style worm that
