INTEL_REPORT
The Hacker News · published 7/15/2026, 10:55:22 AM · TLP amber
Summary
Ingested excerpt (first ~500 chars of normalized text).
Cursor Flaw Lets Malicious Cloned Repositories Trigger Windows Code Execution Open a repository in Cursor on Windows and, if a file named git.exe is sitting in the project root, Cursor runs it. No click, no approval dialog, no warning that anything in the folder is about to execute. Whatever that binary does, it does as you, with your source, your SSH keys and your cloud tokens. Cursor keeps re-running it for as long as the project stays open. No prompt Curso…
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/cursor-flaw-lets-malicious-cloned.html
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What we pulled out
Deterministic extractor (IOC + allowlisted tokens + ATT&CK IDs present in DB).
Indicators
Linked with report → mentions → indicator. Values open the indicator workspace.
Malware families
Allowlist token matches only.
Threat actors mentioned
Allowlist mentions — not a formal attribution verdict.
ATT&CK techniques
MITRE IDs referenced in text and present in local technique table.
CONTINUE INVESTIGATION
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Neighborhood from the first linked indicator.
| git.exe |
| Open → |
| domain | filename.exe | Open → |
| domain | where.exe | Open → |
| cve | CVE-2026-10591 | Open → |
| cve | CVE-2020-26233 | Open → |