Infostealers Are Targeting AI: What Aokigahara Infostealer Reveals About the New Developer Attack Surface

AI assistants have quickly become part of everyday work, particularly for developers. Tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and GitHub Copilot increasingly sit alongside source code, cloud environments and other sensitive business resources, making the credentials and sessions connected to these tools increasingly important to protect. New research from Check Point Research (CPR) into the Aokigahara infostealer shows how attackers are adapting to this shift.