Prompt injection engineering for attackers: Exploiting GitHub Copilot
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Summary
Trail of Bits demonstrates a prompt injection exploit against GitHub Copilot's coding agent, where a crafted GitHub issue tricks Copilot into inserting a hidden backdoor in its pull request.
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--- id: 1359 title: "Prompt injection engineering for attackers: Exploiting GitHub Copilot" source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/06/prompt-injection-engineering-for-attackers-exploiting-github-copilot/" published_at: "2025-08-06 04:00" tags: ["ai-security", "prompt-injection", "llm-security", "ai-agents", "backdoor", "trail-of-bits", "github-copilot"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1359" lang: en --- # Prompt injection engineering for attackers: Exploiting GitHub Copilot ## Summary Trail of Bits demonstrates a prompt injection exploit against GitHub Copilot's coding agent, where a crafted GitHub issue tricks Copilot into inserting a hidden backdoor in its pull request. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com - **Published:** 2025-08-06 04:00 - **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/06/prompt-injection-engineering-for-attackers-exploiting-github-copilot/ - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1359