AI agents tricked into recommending malicious GitHub repositories Roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories were uncovered, more than 800 of them posing as AI Skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, in a wave that peaked in April 2026, according to Island. The scale of the FakeGit operation (Source: Island) The fake repositories are tied to about 6,600 accounts, around 1,400 of which wer...