performing-threat-emulation-with-atomic-red-team
Audited by Socket on Sep 14, 2026
2 alerts found:
Securityx2SUSPICIOUS: the skill’s purpose and capabilities are internally consistent, but it equips the agent with offensive threat-emulation execution. Install sources are legitimate, yet reliance on unpinned upstream content plus optional credentialed remote execution makes this a high-risk cybersecurity skill rather than benign documentation.
No clear malware or data-theft behavior is present. The code is a threat-emulation tool whose intended functionality requires executing Atomic Red Team commands. However, treating the atomics directory as trusted is essential: a modified or malicious YAML file can execute arbitrary shell commands with the user's privileges through shell=True. The provided fragment also contains syntax errors and incomplete action handling.