Tag: blockchain
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NK Hackers Push 200 Malicious npm Packages with OtterCookie Malware
North Korean hackers escalated the “Contagious Interview” attack, flooding the npm registry with over 200 malicious packages to install OtterCookie malware. This attack targets blockchain and Web3 developers through fake job interviews and coding tests. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/nk-hackers-npm-packages-ottercookie-malware/
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NK Hackers Push 200 Malicious npm Packages with OtterCookie Malware
North Korean hackers escalated the “Contagious Interview” attack, flooding the npm registry with over 200 malicious packages to install OtterCookie malware. This attack targets blockchain and Web3 developers through fake job interviews and coding tests. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/nk-hackers-npm-packages-ottercookie-malware/
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NK Hackers Push 200 Malicious npm Packages with OtterCookie Malware
North Korean hackers escalated the “Contagious Interview” attack, flooding the npm registry with over 200 malicious packages to install OtterCookie malware. This attack targets blockchain and Web3 developers through fake job interviews and coding tests. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/nk-hackers-npm-packages-ottercookie-malware/
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NK Hackers Push 200 Malicious npm Packages with OtterCookie Malware
North Korean hackers escalated the “Contagious Interview” attack, flooding the npm registry with over 200 malicious packages to install OtterCookie malware. This attack targets blockchain and Web3 developers through fake job interviews and coding tests. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/nk-hackers-npm-packages-ottercookie-malware/
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GlassWorm Returns with 24 Malicious Extensions Impersonating Popular Developer Tools
The supply chain campaign known as GlassWorm has once again reared its head, infiltrating both Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX with 24 extensions impersonating popular developer tools and frameworks like Flutter, React, Tailwind, Vim, and Vue.GlassWorm was first documented in October 2025, detailing its use of the Solana blockchain for command-and-control (C2) and…
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GlassWorm Returns with 24 Malicious Extensions Impersonating Popular Developer Tools
The supply chain campaign known as GlassWorm has once again reared its head, infiltrating both Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX with 24 extensions impersonating popular developer tools and frameworks like Flutter, React, Tailwind, Vim, and Vue.GlassWorm was first documented in October 2025, detailing its use of the Solana blockchain for command-and-control (C2) and…
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Volle Datenhoheit für Nutzer: Dwinity launcht unknackbare Blockchain-Cloud
Während herkömmliche Cloud-Dienste zentrale Server nutzen und damit potenzielle Angriffsflächen bieten , verfolgt Dwinity einen konsequent dezentralen Ansatz. Dateien werden beim Hochladen in Fragmente zerlegt, verschlüsselt und anschließend auf viele unabhängige Knoten (‘Nodes”) im Netzwerk verteilt. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/volle-datenhoheit-fuer-nutzer-dwinity-launcht-unknackbare-blockchain-cloud/a43002/
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From code to boardroom: A GenAI GRC approach to supply chain risk
Tags: ai, blockchain, business, ciso, compliance, dark-web, data, defense, finance, framework, gartner, grc, intelligence, LLM, metric, open-source, regulation, resilience, risk, strategy, supply-chain, threat, vulnerabilityThe GenAI GRC mandate: From reporting to prediction: To counter a threat that moves at the speed of computation, our GRC must also become generative and predictive. The GenAI GRC mandate is to shift the focus from documenting compliance to predicting systemic failure.Current GRC methods are designed for documentation. They verify that a policy exists.…
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North Korean Kimsuky and Lazarus Teams Target Critical Sectors with Zero-Day Exploits
Tags: apt, attack, blockchain, crypto, cyber, exploit, finance, framework, group, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, korea, lazarus, military, north-korea, threat, zero-dayNorth Korea’s two most formidable APT groups Kimsuky and Lazarus have established a coordinated operational framework that combines intelligence gathering with large-scale cryptocurrency theft. According to a comprehensive Trend Micro analysis, this collaboration poses an unprecedented threat to critical infrastructure worldwide, with attacks targeting the military, financial, blockchain, energy, and healthcare sectors across the United…
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North Korean Kimsuky and Lazarus Teams Target Critical Sectors with Zero-Day Exploits
Tags: apt, attack, blockchain, crypto, cyber, exploit, finance, framework, group, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, korea, lazarus, military, north-korea, threat, zero-dayNorth Korea’s two most formidable APT groups Kimsuky and Lazarus have established a coordinated operational framework that combines intelligence gathering with large-scale cryptocurrency theft. According to a comprehensive Trend Micro analysis, this collaboration poses an unprecedented threat to critical infrastructure worldwide, with attacks targeting the military, financial, blockchain, energy, and healthcare sectors across the United…
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From code to boardroom: A GenAI GRC approach to supply chain risk
Tags: ai, blockchain, business, ciso, compliance, dark-web, data, defense, finance, framework, gartner, grc, intelligence, LLM, metric, open-source, regulation, resilience, risk, strategy, supply-chain, threat, vulnerabilityThe GenAI GRC mandate: From reporting to prediction: To counter a threat that moves at the speed of computation, our GRC must also become generative and predictive. The GenAI GRC mandate is to shift the focus from documenting compliance to predicting systemic failure.Current GRC methods are designed for documentation. They verify that a policy exists.…
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CredShields Joins Forces with Checkmarx to Bring Smart Contract Security to Enterprise AppSec Programs
Singapore, Singapore, November 19th, 2025, CyberNewsWire The collaboration advances enterprise grade application security into decentralized ecosystems, uniting Checkmarx’s AppSec expertise with Web3 specialization by CredShields. CredShields, a leading Web3 security firm, has partnered with Checkmarx, the global leader in agentic AI-powered application security testing, to work with AI-driven smart contract audits, vulnerability research, and blockchain…
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Spam flooding npm registry with token stealers still isn’t under control
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, blockchain, breach, control, credentials, crypto, detection, edr, exploit, finance, firewall, governance, identity, login, malicious, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, open-source, pypi, risk, software, spam, supply-chain, threat, tool, wormCSO that number has now grown to 153,000.And while this payload merely steals tokens, other threat actors are paying attention, said Sonatype CTO Brian Fox.When Sonatype wrote about the campaign just over a year ago, it found a mere 15,000 packages that appeared to come from a single person.With the swollen numbers reported this week,…
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Worm flooding npm registry with token stealers still isn’t under control
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, blockchain, breach, control, credentials, crypto, detection, edr, exploit, finance, firewall, governance, identity, login, malicious, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, open-source, pypi, risk, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, wormCSO that number has now grown to 153,000.”It’s unfortunate that the worm isn’t under control yet,” said Sonatype CTO Brian Fox.And while this payload merely steals tokens, other threat actors are paying attention, he predicted.”I’m sure somebody out there in the world is looking at this massively replicating worm and wondering if they can ride…
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Fake Chrome Extension “Safery” Steals Ethereum Wallet Seed Phrases Using Sui Blockchain
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a malicious Chrome extension that poses as a legitimate Ethereum wallet but harbors functionality to exfiltrate users’ seed phrases.The name of the extension is “Safery: Ethereum Wallet,” with the threat actor describing it as a “secure wallet for managing Ethereum cryptocurrency with flexible settings.” It was uploaded to the Chrome Web…
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Malicious Chrome Extension Grants Full Control Over Ethereum Wallet
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated supply chain attack disguised as a legitimate cryptocurrency wallet. Socket’s Threat Research Team discovered a malicious Chrome extension called >>Safery: Ethereum Wallet,
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How GlassWorm wormed its way back into developers’ code, and what it says about open source security
Tags: access, ai, attack, blockchain, ciso, control, credentials, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, framework, github, google, infrastructure, law, malicious, malware, marketplace, monitoring, open-source, resilience, service, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, wormadhamu.history-in-sublime-merge (downloaded 4,000 times)ai-driven-dev.ai-driven-dev (downloaded 3,300 times)yasuyuky.transient-emacs (downloaded 2,400 times)All three GlassWorm extensions are “still literally invisible” in code editors, the researchers note. They are encoded in unprintable Unicode characters that look like blank space to the human eye, but execute as JavaScript.The attackers have posted new transactions to the Solana blockchain that outline updated…
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How GlassWorm wormed its way back into developers’ code, and what it says about open source security
Tags: access, ai, attack, blockchain, ciso, control, credentials, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, framework, github, google, infrastructure, law, malicious, malware, marketplace, monitoring, open-source, resilience, service, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, wormadhamu.history-in-sublime-merge (downloaded 4,000 times)ai-driven-dev.ai-driven-dev (downloaded 3,300 times)yasuyuky.transient-emacs (downloaded 2,400 times)All three GlassWorm extensions are “still literally invisible” in code editors, the researchers note. They are encoded in unprintable Unicode characters that look like blank space to the human eye, but execute as JavaScript.The attackers have posted new transactions to the Solana blockchain that outline updated…
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Crypto-less Crypto Investment Scams: A California Case
Tags: access, apt, blockchain, breach, business, china, communications, control, crime, crypto, cybercrime, data, email, finance, group, intelligence, international, jobs, network, office, organized, scam, theft, tool, usaMy readers will know by now that I am addicted to PACER – the Public Access to Court Electronic Records. When I see headlines like this one, I am compelled to dive in and read every publicly released document related to the case. USAO Central California The headline last month was that Shengsheng He, a…
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Crypto-less Crypto Investment Scams: A California Case
Tags: access, apt, blockchain, breach, business, china, communications, control, crime, crypto, cybercrime, data, email, finance, group, intelligence, international, jobs, network, office, organized, scam, theft, tool, usaMy readers will know by now that I am addicted to PACER – the Public Access to Court Electronic Records. When I see headlines like this one, I am compelled to dive in and read every publicly released document related to the case. USAO Central California The headline last month was that Shengsheng He, a…
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Balancer hack analysis and guidance for the DeFi ecosystem
Tags: access, attack, blockchain, control, crypto, exploit, finance, flaw, guide, intelligence, monitoring, oracle, radius, risk, software, strategy, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityTL;DR The root cause of the hack was a rounding direction issue that had been present in the code for many years. When the bug was first introduced, the threat landscape of the blockchain ecosystem was significantly different, and arithmetic issues in particular were not widely considered likely vectors for exploitation. As low-hanging attack paths…
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Checkpoint Analysis: Dissecting the $128M Balancer Pool Drain in Under 30 Minutes
In the early hours of November 3, 2025, Check Point Research’s blockchain threat monitoring systems flagged a suspicious pattern on the Ethereum mainnet. The alert stemmed from Balancer V2’s Vault contract, which soon revealed one of the most devastating DeFi vulnerabilities to date. Before defenders could intervene, attackers had siphoned $128.64 million from Balancer ComposableStablePool…
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Checkpoint Analysis: Dissecting the $128M Balancer Pool Drain in Under 30 Minutes
In the early hours of November 3, 2025, Check Point Research’s blockchain threat monitoring systems flagged a suspicious pattern on the Ethereum mainnet. The alert stemmed from Balancer V2’s Vault contract, which soon revealed one of the most devastating DeFi vulnerabilities to date. Before defenders could intervene, attackers had siphoned $128.64 million from Balancer ComposableStablePool…
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Dynamische Datensperren Wie KI und Blockchain Governance neu definieren
www.pexels.com/de-de/foto/abstrakt-technologie-forschung-digital-17485707/ Die klassische Welt der Datenhaltung kennt zentrale Datenbanken, Sperr- oder Negativlisten und manuelle Prozesse für Widerruf oder Löschung. Doch im Zeitalter von künstlicher Intelligenz und Blockchain- bzw. Distributed-Ledger-Technologien verändert sich das Fundament von Speicherung, Nutzung und Kontrolle personenbezogener Daten grundlegend. Statt rein zentral gesteuerter Sperrmechanismen entstehen Architekturen aus dezentraler, kryptografisch gestützter Zugriffskontrolle, ergänzt durch……
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Dynamische Datensperren Wie KI und Blockchain Governance neu definieren
www.pexels.com/de-de/foto/abstrakt-technologie-forschung-digital-17485707/ Die klassische Welt der Datenhaltung kennt zentrale Datenbanken, Sperr- oder Negativlisten und manuelle Prozesse für Widerruf oder Löschung. Doch im Zeitalter von künstlicher Intelligenz und Blockchain- bzw. Distributed-Ledger-Technologien verändert sich das Fundament von Speicherung, Nutzung und Kontrolle personenbezogener Daten grundlegend. Statt rein zentral gesteuerter Sperrmechanismen entstehen Architekturen aus dezentraler, kryptografisch gestützter Zugriffskontrolle, ergänzt durch……
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Explainable Trustworthy AI in Healthcare Analytics: How Blockchain and XAI Are Powering 2026’s Next Wave
Every healthcare CEO and CTO is asking the same question in 2025 and for 2026, “Can I trust what my AI just told me?” Artificial…Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/10/explainable-trustworthy-ai-in-healthcare-analytics-how-blockchain-and-xai-are-powering-2026s-next-wave/
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Explainable Trustworthy AI in Healthcare Analytics: How Blockchain and XAI Are Powering 2026’s Next Wave
Every healthcare CEO and CTO is asking the same question in 2025 and for 2026, “Can I trust what my AI just told me?” Artificial…Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/10/explainable-trustworthy-ai-in-healthcare-analytics-how-blockchain-and-xai-are-powering-2026s-next-wave/
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Researchers Expose GhostCall and GhostHire: BlueNoroff’s New Malware Chains
Threat actors tied to North Korea have been observed targeting the Web3 and blockchain sectors as part of twin campaigns tracked as GhostCall and GhostHire.According to Kaspersky, the campaigns are part of a broader operation called SnatchCrypto that has been underway since at least 2017. The activity is attributed to a Lazarus Group sub-cluster called…
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BlueNoroff Shifts Tactics: Targets C-Suite and Managers with New Infiltration Methods
The North Korean-linked threat group BlueNoroff, also known by aliases including Sapphire Sleet, APT38, and Alluring Pisces, continues to evolve its attack tactics while maintaining its primary focus on financial gain. The group has shifted its strategy to employ sophisticated new infiltration methods targeting high-value victims including C-level executives, managers, and blockchain developers within the…