Tag: malicious
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Malicious TanStack Package Abuses Postinstall Script to Steal Developer Secrets
A malicious npm package named “tanstack” has been discovered deploying a stealthy data exfiltration campaign, targeting developers through a deceptive naming strategy and a hidden postinstall script. The package, impersonating the well-known TanStack ecosystem, was weaponized to steal sensitive environment files immediately after installation. The attacker registered the unscoped tanstack package name on npm, exploiting confusion with the legitimate @tanstack organization,…
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CISA Alert Highlights Active Exploitation of cPanel WHM Security Bug
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has raised the alarm over a critical security vulnerability affecting WebPros cPanel & WebHost Manager (WHM) and WP2 (WordPress Squared). On April 30, 2026, CISA officially added this flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, confirming that malicious actors are actively abusing it in real-world attacks.…
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Fake Party Invites and the Rise of Social Phishing Attacks
Attackers are now impersonating invitation services to trick people into clicking malicious links and sharing sensitive information. These phishing attempts look like legitimate event invites, making them especially effective. In this episode, we discuss how these scams work and what steps you can take to stay protected. Special thanks to Guardsquare for sponsoring this episode!……
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1,800 Developers Hit in Mini Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack Across PyPI, NPM, and PHP
What happened A supply chain attack campaign attributed to TeamPCP, dubbed Mini Shai-Hulud, has compromised packages across the PyPI, NPM, and PHP ecosystems over a two-day period, affecting over 1,800 developer repositories containing stolen credentials. The campaign was first identified on April 29 when malicious versions of four SAP NPM packages were caught delivering information-stealing…The…
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Massive Facebook Phishing Operation Leverages AppSheet, Netlify, and Telegram
Cybersecurity researchers at Guardio Labs have uncovered a massive phishing operation dubbed AccountDumpling that has compromised more than 30,000 Facebook accounts worldwide. Unlike conventional phishing campaigns that rely on spoofed domains or compromised SMTP servers, this Vietnamese-linked operation abuses Google AppSheet to deliver fully authenticated malicious emails. Because the messages originate from legitimate Google infrastructure,…
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As email phishing evolves, malicious attachments decline and QR codes surge
A new Microsoft report also describes the collapse of a once-dominant tool for generating phishing websites with fake CAPTCHAs. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/email-phishing-trends-microsoft-qr-codes/819077/
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Poisoned Ruby Gems and Go Modules Exploit CI Pipelines for Credential Theft
A new software supply chain attack campaign has been observed using sleeper packages as a conduit to subsequently push malicious payloads that enabled credential theft, GitHub Actions tampering, and SSH persistence.The activity has been attributed to the GitHub account “BufferZoneCorp,” which has published a set of repositories that are associated with malicious Ruby gems and…
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Multiple Exim Mail Server Vulnerabilities Could Trigger Crashes via Malicious DNS Data
The developers of the Exim mail server have officially rolled out version 4.99.2 to address four newly discovered security vulnerabilities. This critical update patches multiple software flaws that could allow attackers to crash server connections, corrupt memory heaps, or potentially leak sensitive system data. Mail server administrators are strongly advised to apply these fixes immediately…
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Ruby Gems and Go Modules Used in Campaign Targeting GitHub Actions
A sophisticated software supply chain attack originating from the GitHub account BufferZoneCorp has been uncovered, targeting developers and continuous integration environments through malicious Ruby gems and Go modules. The campaign deployed sleeper packages that impersonated legitimate developer tools, which were later weaponized to steal secrets and poison build pipelines. On the Ruby ecosystem, threat actors…
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Fake CAPTCHA Scam Uses SMS Pumping to Inflate Phone Bills
A newly uncovered cyber fraud campaign is abusing fake CAPTCHA pages to trick mobile users into sending large volumes of international SMS messages, resulting in unexpected phone bills and illicit profits for attackers. Unlike traditional malware campaigns, this operation does not require installing malicious software. Instead, it exploits telecom billing systems and affiliate revenue models…
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PyTorch Lightning and Intercom-client Hit in Supply Chain Attacks to Steal Credentials
In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft.According to Aikido Security, OX Security, Socket, and StepSecurity, the two malicious versions are versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, both of which were published on April 30, 2026. The campaign…
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PyTorch Lightning Compromised in PyPI Supply Chain Attack to Steal Credentials
In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft.According to Aikido Security, Socket, and StepSecurity, the two malicious versions are versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, both of which were published on April 30, 2026. The campaign is assessed…
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PyTorch Lightning Compromised in PyPI Supply Chain Attack to Steal Credentials
In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft.According to Aikido Security, Socket, and StepSecurity, the two malicious versions are versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, both of which were published on April 30, 2026. The campaign is assessed…
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PyTorch Lightning Compromised in PyPI Supply Chain Attack to Steal Credentials
In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft.According to Aikido Security, Socket, and StepSecurity, the two malicious versions are versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, both of which were published on April 30, 2026. The campaign is assessed…
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Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs
A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other network operators in Brazil, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The firm’s chief executive says the malicious activity resulted from a security breach and was likely the work…
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EtherRAT Distribution Spoofing Administrative Tools via GitHub Facades
IntroA sophisticated, high-resilience malicious campaign was identified by Atos Threat Research Center (TRC) in March 2026. This operation specifically targets the high-privilege professional accounts of enterprise administrators, DevOps engineers, and security analysts by impersonating administrative utilities they rely on for daily operations. By integrating Search Engine Order (SEO) First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article:…
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OpenAI Unveils Cyber Defense Roadmap Focused on AI-Powered Security
OpenAI has released a comprehensive cyber defense roadmap titled >>Cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age<< to responsibly equip defenders with AI-powered security tools faster than malicious actors can adapt. Spearheaded by Sasha Baker in April 2026, the action plan outlines five core pillars to democratize advanced defensive capabilities and build lasting national resilience. Five Pillars for…
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Backdoored WordPress Plugin Abuses Remote Update Checker for Silent Code Delivery
A long-dormant backdoor has been uncovered in the >>Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin,<< a popular WordPress add-on with over 70,000 active installations. The tampered plugin, specifically version 5.2.3, contained two distinct malicious features. First, it featured a passive content injection mechanism. On every page viewed by a logged-out user, the plugin connected to a third-party server…
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Bad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, banking, business, container, control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, exploit, finance, fraud, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, LLM, malicious, monitoring, resilience, risk, service, threat, tool, vulnerabilityBad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals josh.pearson@t“¦ Thu, 04/30/2026 – 07:31 The modern internet is becoming less human by the day. Bot traffic is increasing, and human traffic is shrinking. Malicious automated traffic is getting harder to spot. The Thales 2026 Bad Bot Report, now in it’s…
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Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI CI RCE and Cursor Flaws Enable Code Execution
Google has addressed a maximum severity security flaw in Gemini CLI — the “@google/gemini-cli” npm package and the “google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli” GitHub Actions workflow — that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on host systems.”The vulnerability allowed an unprivileged external attacker to force their own malicious content to load as Gemini configuration,” First seen on…
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Compromised SAP npm Packages Found Harvesting Developer and CI/CD Secrets
Security researchers have identified a severe supply chain attack targeting the SAP developer ecosystem. A threat group identified as TeamPCP has compromised multiple legitimate SAP npm packages in a new campaign named Mini Shai Hulud. The operation relies on injecting malicious pre-install scripts that execute silently during dependency installation. By leveraging a multi-stage payload, the…
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Coming Soon: AI-Scan OpenClaw Ecosystem Security Scanning Capabilities
As the OpenClaw ecosystem continues to surge in popularity, more customers are deploying and utilizing these AI agents on a large scale. However, this growth has brought significant security challenges to the forefront, including over 33 documented CVE vulnerabilities, 288+ GHSA security advisories, the rise in malicious Skills, and frequent memory poisoning attacks. The NSFOCUSLLM……
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Researchers unearth industrial sabotage malware that predated Stuxnet by 5 years
fast16.sys, is briefly mentioned in the 2017 Shadow Brokers leak of documents covering exploits and tools used by US National Security Agency cyber teams.”This 2005 attack is a harbinger for sabotage operations targeting ultra expensive high-precision computing workloads of national importance like advanced physics, cryptographic, and nuclear research workloads,” the SentinelOne researchers said in their…
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New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic’s Claude Opus large language model (LLM).The package in question is “@validate-sdk/v2,” which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding, and secure random generation. However, its…
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New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic’s Claude Opus large language model (LLM).The package in question is “@validate-sdk/v2,” which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding, and secure random generation. However, its…
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Mastering agentic AI security through exposure management
As AI tools evolve from siloed chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected systems, they create a vast new attack surface. Discover how to manage this risk by focusing on visibility, agency, and semantic security to protect your organization’s increasingly complex landscape of agentic AI systems. Key takeaways Organizations have moved from siloed AI chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected…
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Mastering agentic AI security through exposure management
As AI tools evolve from siloed chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected systems, they create a vast new attack surface. Discover how to manage this risk by focusing on visibility, agency, and semantic security to protect your organization’s increasingly complex landscape of agentic AI systems. Key takeaways Organizations have moved from siloed AI chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected…