Tag: malicious
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Expired domain leads to supply chain attack on node-ipc npm package
require(‘node-ipc’). The trojanized versions were designed to remain fully functional to avoid immediate detection, which together with other decisions attackers took, such as data exfiltration via DNS TXT, suggest stealthiness was a top priority.Once executed, the malicious code collects information about the host system, including operating system version, hostname, and environment variables. It then starts…
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Exchange Server zero-day vulnerability can be triggered by opening a malicious email
Tags: automation, data, email, malicious, microsoft, mitigation, risk, service, tactics, update, vulnerability, zero-dayKnown issues with mitigation tactics: However, admins should note there are known issues once the mitigation is applied either manually or automatically through the EM Service.OWA Print Calendar functionality might not work. As a workaround, copy the data or screenshot the calendar you want to print, or use Outlook Desktop client. Inline images might not…
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Funnel Builder WordPress plugin bug exploited to steal credit cards
A critical vulnerability in the Funnel Builder plugin for WordPress is being actively exploited to inject malicious JavaScript snippets into WooCommerce checkout pages. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/funnel-builder-wordpress-plugin-bug-exploited-to-steal-credit-cards/
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7AI Uncovers Browser Extension Campaign Evading EDR Defenses
7AI uncovered a browser-extension campaign that bypassed EDR defenses to inject malicious JavaScript into authenticated browser sessions. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/7ai-uncovers-browser-extension-campaign-evading-edr-defenses/
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Cisco warns of an actively exploited SD-WAN flaw with max severity
Tags: access, advisory, cisco, cloud, control, cve, cvss, cybersecurity, data-breach, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, malicious, mitigation, network, service, software, update, vulnerabilityroot user account,” Cisco said. “Using this account, the attacker could access NETCONF, which would then allow the attacker to manipulate network configuration for the SD-WAN fabric.”The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-20182, received a max-severity rating of CVSS 10.0. The company said that the issue is configuration-independent, meaning vulnerable systems remain exposed regardless of deployment-specific settings.Cisco…
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EU’s Cyber Resiliency Act will put IT leaders to the test
Tags: access, attack, cio, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, exploit, firewall, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, kubernetes, law, malicious, mitigation, open-source, password, programming, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, router, sbom, software, supply-chain, tool, update, vpn, vulnerabilityProduct safety: The CRA says digital products have to be secure by design and default, and can’t ship with known vulnerabilities like obvious default passwords that can be exploited. They also must be updatable if such vulnerabilities are found later, as well as minimize their impact by limiting the attack surface and protecting confidentiality and…
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EU’s Cyber Resiliency Act will put IT leaders to the test
Tags: access, attack, cio, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, exploit, firewall, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, kubernetes, law, malicious, mitigation, open-source, password, programming, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, router, sbom, software, supply-chain, tool, update, vpn, vulnerabilityProduct safety: The CRA says digital products have to be secure by design and default, and can’t ship with known vulnerabilities like obvious default passwords that can be exploited. They also must be updatable if such vulnerabilities are found later, as well as minimize their impact by limiting the attack surface and protecting confidentiality and…
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TeamPCP Hackers Exploit CI/CD Pipelines to Steal Cloud Credentials
A financially motivated threat group known as TeamPCP is aggressively targeting modern software supply chains, abusing trusted CI/CD pipelines to steal sensitive developer and cloud credentials at scale. TeamPCP’s core strategy is simple but highly effective: compromise trusted build and release workflows instead of end-user systems. By injecting malicious code into CI/CD pipelines, attackers leverage…
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Malicious node-ipc npm Packages Trigger New Supply Chain Security Alarm
A fresh supply chain attack targeting the widely used node-ipc npm package has raised new concerns across the JavaScript ecosystem after researchers uncovered multiple malicious releases containing an obfuscated credential stealer and backdoor functionality. Security analysts confirmed that several recently published package tarballs were infected with malware capable of harvesting sensitive data from developer systems and CI environments. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article:…
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Popular node-ipc npm Library Hit by Supply Chain Attack, Impacting 822K Weekly Downloads
A widely used npm package with more than 822,000 weekly downloads has once again become the center of a serious supply chain attack, raising fresh concerns across the JavaScript ecosystem. Security researchers at Socket have uncovered multiple malicious versions of the popular node-ipc library containing stealthy credential-stealing malware and backdoor capabilities. The affected versions, node-ipc@9.1.6,…
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Stealer Backdoor Found in 3 Node-IPC Versions Targeting Developer Secrets
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about what has been described as “malicious activity” in newly published versions of node-ipc.According to Socket and StepSecurity, three different versions of the npm package have been confirmed as malicious -node-ipc@9.1.6node-ipc@9.2.3node-ipc@12.0.1“Early analysis indicates that node-ipc@9.1.6, node-ipc@9.2.3, and node-ipc@12.0.1 First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/05/stealer-backdoor-found-in-3-node-ipc.html
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FlowerStorm phishing gang adopts virtual-machine obfuscation to evade email defenses
Tags: attack, authentication, business, cloud, communications, control, credentials, defense, detection, email, framework, government, infrastructure, login, malicious, malware, mfa, microsoft, phishing, service, theftThe campaign dynamically adapts to victims: After deobfuscation, the phishing payload loads infrastructure designed to impersonate Microsoft 365 and other login portals while dynamically adapting to targeted users.According to the report, the malware can determine which authentication provider should be impersonated, preload victim email addresses into phishing pages, and customize branding elements such as company…
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170 npm Packages Hijacked to Steal GitHub, AWS Kubernetes Secrets
Hackers have launched a large-scale supply chain attack by compromising more than 170 npm packages and two PyPI libraries, collectively downloaded over 200 million times weekly, to steal sensitive developer and cloud credentials. The malicious npm packages contain a hidden preinstall script that silently executes during installation. This script deploys a loader, which downloads a…
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Hackers Hijack HWMonitor to Sideload Malicious DLL
Hackers are once again exploiting user trust in legitimate software, this time abusing the popular CPUID HWMonitor utility to deliver a stealthy remote access trojan. The malicious archive mimics a legitimate installer, highlighting how trusted tools remain a powerful lure for initial access. The weaponized ZIP archive, distributed via a fake download link, contains the…
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New Fragnesia Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges
Linux distros are rolling out patches for a new high-severity kernel privilege escalation vulnerability (known as Fragnasia and tracked as CVE-2026-46300) that allows attackers to run malicious code as root. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-fragnesia-linux-flaw-lets-attackers-gain-root-privileges/
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New Exim BDAT GnuTLS Vulnerability Enables Code Execution Attacks
A critical, stealthy vulnerability is lurking deep within Exim, the software powering a massive share of the world’s email infrastructure. Sitting exposed on the internet’s front lines, these message transfer agents are highly lucrative targets for ruthless threat actors. This newly unmasked memory corruption flaw arms attackers with the terrifying ability to remotely execute malicious…
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Mistral AI SDK, TanStack Router hit in npm software supply chain attack
Tags: ai, api, attack, breach, cloud, credentials, data, data-breach, exploit, github, kubernetes, malicious, malware, network, open-source, password, router, service, software, supply-chain, switch, vulnerabilitypull_request_target. This allows third-party workflows to run automatically, a way of avoiding maintainer approval fatigue, but means that the maintainer’s short-lived OIDC tokens become vulnerable to scraping.Armed with these tokens, the attacker were able to compromise the packages by injecting the malicious Mini Shai-Hulud malware, which propagated to other projects.The purpose is to steal developer…
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RubyGems Suspends New Signups After Hundreds of Malicious Packages Are Uploaded
RubyGems, the standard package manager for the Ruby programming language, has temporarily paused account sign ups following what has been described as a “major malicious attack.””We’re dealing with a major malicious attack on Ruby Gems right now,” Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager for software supply chain security at Mend.io, said in a post on X.…
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Shai Hulud attack ships signed malicious TanStack, Mistral npm packages
Hundreds of packages across npm and PyPI have been compromised in a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign delivering credential-stealing malware targeting developers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shai-hulud-attack-ships-signed-malicious-tanstack-mistral-npm-packages/
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Cline AI Agent Flaw Allows Attackers to Launch RCE Attacks
A critical security vulnerability in the Cline AI coding assistant’s kanban package exposes developers to remote code execution, data theft, and denial-of-service attacks by simply visiting a malicious website. Security researcher Sagilayani disclosed CVE-2026-44211 on GitHub four days ago, revealing that the kanban npm package bundled with the Cline CLI starts a WebSocket server on 127.0.0.1:3484 with zero Origin…
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Malicious Hugging Face Repository Typosquats OpenAI
HiddenLayer reveals infostealer malware in a Hugging Face repository First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/malicious-hugging-face-repo/
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Claude Chrome Extension Flaw Lets Malicious Add-Ons Steal Gmail and Drive Data
A critical vulnerability dubbed >>ClaudeBleed<< has compromised Anthropic's trusted AI assistant, potentially turning it into a backdoor. This severe design flaw in the Claude Chrome extension allows malicious add-ons to hijack the AI secretly. Even extensions with zero declared permissions can exploit this vulnerability to steal sensitive data from Gmail, Google Drive, and GitHub. In…
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Magecart Hackers Exploit Google Tag Manager to Inject Credit Card Skimmers
Magecart-style attackers are once again abusing trusted web services, this time weaponizing Google Tag Manager (GTM) to inject credit card skimmers into ecommerce websites stealthily. Because GTM is widely used and loaded from the trusted domain googletagmanager.com, malicious scripts can blend in with legitimate site functionality, making detection significantly harder. Once embedded into a compromised…
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Checkmarx Jenkins AST Plugin Compromised in KICS Supply Chain Attack
Supply chain campaign has now extended to Checkmarx’s Jenkins ecosystem, with attackers pushing a malicious Checkmarx Jenkins AST plugin to the official Jenkins Marketplace as part of the ongoing KICS/Trivy-linked compromise. The rogue release is identified as version 2026.5.09 and includes tampered plugin artifacts, while the last known-good Jenkins AST plugin build remains 2.0.13-829.vc72453fa_1c16, released…
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84 npm Packages Linked to TanStack Hit by Supply-Chain Breach
A massive supply chain breach affecting 84 npm packages within the widely used TanStack ecosystem. Malicious actors compromised these packages by injecting a sophisticated credential-stealing tool designed to target continuous integration environments such as GitHub Actions. Packages such as React Router, which sees over 12 million weekly downloads, were modified, posing a severe threat to…
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Claude Code MCP Attack Enables Persistent Token Theft
Researchers demonstrated a Claude Code attack that steals OAuth tokens through malicious MCP integrations and npm hooks. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/claude-code-mcp-attack-enables-persistent-token-theft/
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Hackers Used AI to Develop First Known Zero-Day 2FA Bypass for Mass Exploitation
Tags: 2fa, ai, cybercrime, exploit, google, hacker, intelligence, malicious, technology, threat, vulnerability, zero-dayGoogle on Monday disclosed that it identified an unknown threat actor using a zero-day exploit that it said was likely developed with an artificial intelligence (AI) system, marking the first time the technology has been put to use in the wild in a malicious context for vulnerability discovery and exploit generation.The activity is said to…
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Malicious Hugging Face model masquerading as OpenAI release hits 244K downloads
Part of a broader AI supply chain targeting: HiddenLayer, in its advisory, said that it identified six additional Hugging Face repositories uploaded under a separate account that used nearly identical loader logic and shared infrastructure with the campaign.The researchers also linked elements of the operation to earlier software supply-chain attacks involving npm typosquatting campaigns and…
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New ‘Dirty Frag’ exploit targets Linux kernel for root access
Tags: access, attack, control, cve, exploit, linux, malicious, microsoft, mitigation, monitoring, switch, tool, vulnerabilityAttackers are already exploiting Dirty Frag: Microsoft warned that Dirty Frag is already being actively exploited in the wild, primarily as a post-compromise privilege escalation tool. The company said attackers are using the vulnerability after obtaining an initial foothold on vulnerable Linux systems, allowing them to elevate privileges from a low-level user account to full…