{"slug": "prompt-injection-in-virustotal-s-code-insights-api", "title": "Prompt Injection in VirusTotal's Code Insights API", "summary": "A security researcher demonstrated a prompt injection attack against VirusTotal's Code Insights API, a Google-owned malware analysis service, that could trick the AI-powered code review tool into hiding malicious behavior in uploaded files. The attack, detailed in a post on exploiting.systems dated August 8, 2026, exploits the API's handling of untrusted code comments to manipulate the AI's analysis, potentially allowing malware to evade detection. The researcher's findings highlight a critical vulnerability in AI-assisted security tools that rely on large language models to interpret potentially hostile input.", "body_md": "Article URL: \nhttps://exploiting.systems/posts/2026-08-08-prompt-injection-in-virustotals-code-insights-api\n\nComments URL: \nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344134\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/prompt-injection-in-virustotal-s-code-insights-api", "canonical_source": "https://exploiting.systems/posts/2026-08-08-prompt-injection-in-virustotals-code-insights-api", "published_at": "2026-08-18 11:29:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-18 11:41:34.766770+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["VirusTotal", "Google", "Code Insights API"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/prompt-injection-in-virustotal-s-code-insights-api", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/prompt-injection-in-virustotal-s-code-insights-api.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/prompt-injection-in-virustotal-s-code-insights-api.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/prompt-injection-in-virustotal-s-code-insights-api.jsonld"}}