AI (Artificial Intelligence) has significantly revolutionized software engineering with several advanced AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, which help boost developers’ efficiency.  Besides this, two types of AI-powered coding assistant tools emerged in recent times, and here we have mentioned them:- CODE COMPLETION Tool CODE GENERATION Tool Cybersecurity researchers Sanghak Oh, Kiho Lee, Seonhye Park, Doowon Kim, Hyoungshick Kim from the following universities recently identified that poisoned AI coding assistant tools open the application to hack attack:- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, USA Poisoned AI Coding Assistant AI coding assistants are transforming software engineering, but they are vulnerable to poisoning attacks. Attackers inject malicious code snippets into training data, leading to insecure suggestions.  This poses real-world risks, as researchers’ study with 238 participants and 30 professional developers reveals.

Source: GBHackers