Crypto News

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill appears to fetch crypto news from a disclosed external API using a user-provided API key, with no evidence of hidden persistence, credential theft, or destructive behavior.

Install only if you are comfortable giving the skill a BlockBeats API key and allowing it to contact the BlockBeats API. Prefer a dedicated, revocable API key, and avoid sharing unrelated secrets in the same runtime environment.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (1)

Lp3

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The skill declares required binaries and environment variables and instructs execution of a Node.js script that will likely make outbound requests, but it does not explicitly declare permissions for sensitive capabilities such as network and env access. This creates a transparency and policy-enforcement gap: users or platforms may not realize the skill can access secrets and external services, increasing the risk of unintended data exposure or over-privileged execution.

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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