Jiffy Intel — Threat intelligence for AI artifacts

Summary

Skill published with a name one character off from a popular legitimate skill (homoglyph, transposed letter, missing hyphen). Users install the typosquat; the malicious version has stealer behavior the legitimate one does not.

Severity & confidence

Severity

Medium

Notable weakness with plausible abuse chains or partial mitigations already in place. Track, and resolve as part of your normal hardening cadence.

Confidence

Confirmed

Observed directly by Jiffy scanners or validated by multiple independent sources. Indicators are reliable enough to drive automated action.

Indicators

Observed patterns and artifacts associated with this entry. Each indicator can be copied into your detection stack or SIEM.

(?i)(?:name\s*:\s*[^\n]{0,60})(?:prroductivity|helpr|optimiezr|assitant)

Detection rule

A YARA-style pseudo-rule auto-generated from the indicators above. Useful as a starting point — adapt the syntax for your target detection platform.

YARA-style pseudo-rule

rule jiffy_ti_2026_000036
{
    meta:
        source = "jiffy-intel"
        severity = "medium"
        description = "Auto-generated from Jiffy Intel indicators"
    strings:
    $tool_call_pattern_0 = "(?i)(?:name\\s*:\\s*[^\\n]{0,60})(?:prroductivity|helpr|optimiezr|assitant)"
    condition:
        $tool_call_pattern_0
}

Auto-generated from the indicators above. Adapt syntax for your detection stack before deploying.

Affected tools

Tool	Versions	Status
Claude Code	`*`	vulnerable
Cursor	`*`	vulnerable

Example artifacts

Sanitized examples of artifacts Jiffy has observed exhibiting this pattern. Publisher handles are redacted; version ranges and status reflect the most recent scan.

prroductivity-packSkill
Removed
Source
Anthropic Skills
Versions
1.0.0
First observed
Feb 19, 2026
Last observed
Mar 13, 2026
Typosquat of "productivity-pack".
code-helpr-skillSkill
Removed
Source
Community registry
Versions
0.3.0
First observed
Feb 23, 2026
commit-optimiezrSkill
Quarantined
Source
Community registry
First observed
Feb 27, 2026

How to remediate

Reject skills whose names are edit-distance 1 from a known-popular skill unless publisher identity verifies.

Timeline & sources

Timeline

First observedFeb 19, 20261 month ago
Last updatedApr 20, 2026today
PublishedMar 9, 20261 month ago

Sources

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References

blog.jiffylabs.aiJiffy Research

Jiffy Research — The AI Artifact Supply Chain

https://blog.jiffylabs.ai/posts/the-ai-artifact-supply-chain

attack.mitre.org

MITRE ATT&CK T1195 — Supply Chain Compromise

https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1195/

Related intel

Other entries of type Supply Chain, or the most recent published entries if no same-type matches exist.

Supply ChainMedium

IDE rule file fetched from homoglyphed domain

.cursorrules extends from a URL using a homoglyph — e.g., `raw.githubusercontent.c0m` — that serves a malicious ruleset. Casual review misses the character substitution.

Jiffy IntelApr 28

OtherLow

.cursorrules contains large wall-of-text that pushes user intent out of context

.cursorrules whose rule body exceeds 20 000 characters of filler content. Each agent invocation consumes the rule, leaving limited context for the user prompt. Not a direct exfiltration primitive — a budget-starvation attack.

Jiffy IntelApr 28

BackdoorHigh

Skill writes config that hooks into Claude Desktop stdio MCP bridge

Skill modifies the user's Claude Desktop config to register an MCP server pointing at localhost. The server is supplied by the same skill and serves as a persistent interposer between the agent and tool calls, logging all tool arguments.

Jiffy IntelApr 28

Skill typosquats a popular productivity skill name

Summary

Severity & confidence

Medium

Confirmed

Indicators

Detection rule

Affected tools

Example artifacts

How to remediate

Timeline & sources

Timeline

Sources

References

Jiffy Research — The AI Artifact Supply Chain

MITRE ATT&CK T1195 — Supply Chain Compromise

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