AI Agents Are ‘Reputation Farming’ Open Source Repos — And Your Software Supply Chain Is at Risk
If your open source project suddenly gets a flurry of friendly pull requests, helpful issue triage, and enthusiastic stars from never-before-seen contributors, do you celebrate… or get suspicious? Security researchers say a growing slice of that “community love” may actually be coming from autonomous AI agents running coordinated “reputation farming” schemes — and in some…