Tech News

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is a small tech-news skill that fetches headlines from a fixed external API, with no evidence of hidden access, persistence, credential use, or destructive behavior.

Install only if you are comfortable with the skill contacting X-TechCon to retrieve news. A future version should pin the requests dependency and make the external API call more explicit to users before activation.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code

Findings (2)

Vague Triggers

Medium

Confidence: 81% confidence
Finding: The trigger phrases are broad enough that ordinary user requests about tech news may unintentionally invoke this skill, causing unexpected remote API calls and content sourcing from a third party. In agent environments, overly generic activation can lead to confused-deputy behavior, reduced user control, and possible privacy leakage through unnecessary outbound requests.

Missing User Warnings

Low

Confidence: 90% confidence
Finding: The skill states that it will contact an external API but provides no user-facing notice that data may be sent to `www.x-techcon.com`. This reduces transparency and can surprise users, especially if their prompt or session context is incorporated into the request in future revisions.

VirusTotal

55/55 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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