Tag: malicious
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Bubble AI app builder abused to steal Microsoft account credentials
Threat actors are evading phishing detection in campaigns targeting Microsoft accounts by abusing the no-code app-building platform Bubble to generate and host malicious web apps. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bubble-ai-app-builder-abused-to-steal-microsoft-account-credentials/
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Patch now: TP-Link Archer NX routers vulnerable to firmware takeover
TP-Link patched a high severity flaw (CVE-2025-15517) in Archer NX routers that could let attackers bypass authentication and install malicious firmware. TP-Link issued security updates for its Archer NX router series to fix multiple vulnerabilities, including CVE-2025-15517 (CVSS score of 8.6), a critical authentication bypass flaw. The vulnerability impacts multiple models, including NX200, NX210, NX500,…
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When Data Mining Conti Leaks Leads to Actual Binaries and to a Hardcoded C2 With an Encryption Key on Tripod.com Part Five
Tags: backdoor, control, data, detection, encryption, infrastructure, leak, malicious, malware, network, resilience, software, windowsDear blog readers, Continuing the “When Data Mining Conti Leaks Leads to Actual Binaries and to a Hardcoded C2 With an Encryption Key on Tripod.com – Part Four” blog post series in this post I’ll continue analyzing the next malicious software binary which I obtained by data mining Conti Leaks with a lot of success. …
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North Korean Hackers Are Turning VS Code Into a Silent Attack Tool
Developer environments are designed for speed, automation, and flexibility. Features like auto-run tasks and integrated scripting help streamline workflows, but they can also introduce new security risks when abused. New reporting from The Hacker News reveals that North Korean threat actors are exploiting auto-execution features in Visual Studio Code to execute malicious code on developer…
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Trivy supply chain breach compromises over 1,000 SaaS environments, Lapsus$ joins the extortion wave
Tags: access, breach, business, ceo, control, credentials, extortion, github, incident response, Internet, malicious, mandiant, open-source, saas, software, supply-chain, theft, updateA pattern of persistent access: This is the second compromise affecting the Trivy ecosystem within roughly a month. Socket identified compromised Aqua Trivy VS Code extension releases on OpenVSX in late February, and now trivy-action, Trivy’s official GitHub Action for running scans in CI/CD workflows, has been abused through manipulated version tags to distribute malicious…
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PyPI warns developers after LiteLLM malware found stealing cloud and CI/CD credentials
Tags: access, advisory, api, attack, cloud, container, credentials, data, exploit, extortion, github, group, infrastructure, malicious, malware, open-source, pypi, supply-chain, tactics, tool, vulnerabilityAn expanding supply-chain campaign: The LiteLLM incident has been confirmed to be a part of the rapidly unfolding TeamPCP supply chain campaign that first compromised Trivy.Trivy, developed by Aqua Security, is a widely used open-source vulnerability scanner designed to identify security issues in container images, file systems, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) configurations. The ongoing attack, attributed…
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ClawHub Vulnerability Lets Attackers Manipulate Rankings to Become Top Skill
Silverfort researchers recently uncovered a critical security flaw in ClawHub, the main public registry for the OpenClaw agent ecosystem. This vulnerability allowed attackers to artificially boost download numbers, pushing malicious code to the top of the search results. This created a massive supply chain risk that could allow threat actors to run dangerous code on…
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Experts Sound Alarm Over “Prompt Poaching” Browser Extensions
Expel has warned of malicious Chrome extensions stealing users’ AI conversations First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/experts-prompt-poaching-browser/
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Experts Sound Alarm Over “Prompt Poaching” Browser Extensions
Expel has warned of malicious Chrome extensions stealing users’ AI conversations First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/experts-prompt-poaching-browser/
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Malicious LiteLLM versions linked to TeamPCP supply chain attack
TeamPCP backdoored LiteLLM v1.82.71.82.8, likely via Trivy CI/CD, adding tools to steal credentials, move in Kubernetes, and keep persistent access. Threat actor TeamPCP compromised LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8, likely through a Trivy CI/CD breach. LiteLLM, with over 95 million monthly downloads, helps developers route LLM requests via a single API. The malicious releases, now…
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Malicious LiteLLM versions linked to TeamPCP supply chain attack
TeamPCP backdoored LiteLLM v1.82.71.82.8, likely via Trivy CI/CD, adding tools to steal credentials, move in Kubernetes, and keep persistent access. Threat actor TeamPCP compromised LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8, likely through a Trivy CI/CD breach. LiteLLM, with over 95 million monthly downloads, helps developers route LLM requests via a single API. The malicious releases, now…
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Five Malicious npm Packages Target Crypto Developers, Steal Wallet Keys via Telegram
Five malicious npm packages impersonating popular crypto libraries are stealing wallet keys from Solana and Ethereum developers and exfiltrating them directly to a hardcoded Telegram bot. Each package typosquats or wraps a legitimate crypto library and funnels stolen private keys to the same Telegram bot-based command-and-control (C2) channel. The campaign hits both Solana and Ethereum…
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TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.71.82.8 via Trivy CI/CD Compromise
TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recent compromises of Trivy and KICS, has now compromised a popular Python package named litellm, pushing two malicious versions containing a credential harvester, a Kubernetes lateral movement toolkit, and a persistent backdoor.Multiple security vendors, including Endor Labs and JFrog, revealed that litellm versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 were published on…
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Compromised LiteLLM Package With 95M Downloads Tied to TeamPCP, After Trivy KICS Hacks
Security researchers discovered that the popular Python library litellm was compromised on PyPI. With over 95 million monthly downloads, this open-source tool helps developers route requests across various LLM providers through a single API. The threat actor, identified as TeamPCP, injected malicious code into versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8. This devastating supply chain attack directly follows the group’s…
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Compromised LiteLLM Package With 95M Downloads Tied to TeamPCP, After Trivy KICS Hacks
Security researchers discovered that the popular Python library litellm was compromised on PyPI. With over 95 million monthly downloads, this open-source tool helps developers route requests across various LLM providers through a single API. The threat actor, identified as TeamPCP, injected malicious code into versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8. This devastating supply chain attack directly follows the group’s…
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Aqua Security’s Trivy Scanner Hit by Supply Chain Attack, Threatening Software Integrity
Tags: attack, cyber, github, malicious, open-source, risk, software, supply-chain, threat, vulnerabilityA sophisticated supply chain attack compromised Aqua Security’s popular open-source Trivy vulnerability scanner. Threat actors successfully distributed malicious code through the project’s GitHub Actions, targeting deployment pipelines to silently exfiltrate sensitive credentials. While Aqua’s commercial products remain completely unaffected, the incident highlights the severe risks of using mutable version tags in deployment automation. The attack…
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Compromised litellm PyPI Package Delivers Multi-Stage Credential Stealer
<div cla This morning, the widely used Python package litellm, a popular abstraction layer for interacting with large language models (LLMs), was compromised and two malicious versions released (1.82.7 and 1.82.8). First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/compromised-litellm-pypi-package-delivers-multi-stage-credential-stealer/
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TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.71.82.8 Likely via Trivy CI/CD Compromise
TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recent compromises of Trivy and KICS, has now compromised a popular Python package named litellm, pushing two malicious versions containing a credential harvester, a Kubernetes lateral movement toolkit, and a persistent backdoor.Multiple security vendors, including Endor Labs and JFrog, revealed that litellm versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 were published on…
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Experts warn of a ‘loud and aggressive’ extortion wave following Trivy hack
Attackers compromised the open-source security tool and published malicious versions of the software. Mandiant warns the fallout could impact up to 10,000 downstream victims. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/trivy-supply-chain-attack-aqua-downstream-extortion-fallout/
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Trivy’s March Supply Chain Attack Shows Where Secret Exposure Hurts Most
The Trivy story is moving quickly, and the latest reporting makes one thing clear: this is no longer just a GitHub Actions tag hijack. What started as a compromise of trivy-action, setup-trivy, and the v0.69.4 release has expanded into malicious Docker Hub images. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/trivys-march-supply-chain-attack-shows-where-secret-exposure-hurts-most/
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How a Large Bank Uses AI Digital Twins for Threat Hunting
JPMorgan Chase uses digital fingerprints and digital twins to spot online attackers and malicious behaviors while also reducing pesky false alerts. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/untitled
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New ‘StoatWaffle’ malware auto”‘executes attacks on developers
Tags: attack, detection, group, infrastructure, jobs, korea, malicious, malware, north-korea, threatContagious Interview, revisited: StoatWaffle isn’t an isolated campaign. It’s the latest chapter in the Contagious Interview attacks, widely attributed to North Korea-linked threat actors tracked as WaterPlum.Historically, this campaign has targeted developers and job seekers through fake interview processes, luring them into running malicious code under the guise of technical assessments. Previously, the campaign weaponized…
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Ghost Campaign Uses 7 npm Packages to Steal Crypto Wallets and Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new set of malicious npm packages that are designed to steal cryptocurrency wallets and sensitive data.The activity is being tracked by ReversingLabs as the Ghost campaign. The list of identified packages, all published by a user named mikilanjillo, is below -react-performance-suitereact-state-optimizer-corereact-fast-utilsaai-fast-auto-trader First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/03/ghost-campaign-uses-7-npm-packages-to.html
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Autonomous AI adoption is on the rise, but it’s risky
Big risk, big reward: Herein lies the rub: AI experts see huge potential advantages with autonomous AI, with the possibility of creating huge workplace efficiencies, but the risks are substantial.Riley acknowledges both security concerns and the potential for agentic AI to take actions that users didn’t anticipate. While users haven’t yet seen autonomous AI able…
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Google Forms Job Scam Spreads PureHVNC Malware
A newly observed malware campaign is leveraging trusted platforms like Google Forms to distribute the PureHVNC Remote Access Trojan (RAT), marking a shift in how attackers initiate infections. Rather than relying on traditional phishing emails or malicious websites, threat actors are using business-themed lures such as job interviews, project proposals, and financial documents to trick…
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North Korea-linked threat actors abuse VS Code auto-run to spread StoatWaffle malware
North Korea-linked threat actors use VS Code auto-run tasks to spread StoatWaffle malware via malicious projects that execute on folder open. North Korea-linked threat actor Team 8 behind the Contagious Interview campaign is spreading StoatWaffle malware through malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code projects. Since late 2025, they have abused the “tasks.json” auto-run feature in Microsoft…
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TeamPCP deploys Iran-targeted wiper in Kubernetes attacks
The TeamPCP hacking group is targeting Kubernetes clusters with a malicious script that wipes all machines when it detects systems configured for Iran. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/teampcp-deploys-iran-targeted-wiper-in-kubernetes-attacks/
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North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware
The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that’s distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects.The use of VS Code “tasks.json” to distribute malware is a relatively new tactic adopted by the threat actor since December…
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Trivy supply-chain attack spreads to Docker, GitHub repos
The TeamPCP hackers behind the Trivy supply-chain attack continued to target Aqua Security, pushing malicious Docker images and hijacking the company’s GitHub organization to tamper with dozens of repositories. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trivy-supply-chain-attack-spreads-to-docker-github-repos/
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Trivy Scanner Compromise Explained and What it Means For Your SaaS and CI/CD Security
The Trivy supply chain compromise gave attackers a way to deliver malicious infostealer code. Learn how it happened and required remediation steps to audit your environment. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/trivy-scanner-compromise-explained-and-what-it-means-for-your-saas-and-ci-cd-security/