Tag: malicious
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Xinference PyPI Breach Exposes Developers to Cloud Credential Theft
A severe supply chain attack has compromised the popular Python package Xinference, exposing developers to massive data theft. Threat actors uploaded malicious versions of the tool to the Python Package Index (PyPI), embedding a heavily obfuscated infostealer into the code. Xinference has over 600,000 total downloads, making this a significant security event for the software…
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Microsoft Graph API misused by new GoGra Linux malware for hidden communication
A new GoGra Linux malware uses Microsoft Graph API and an Outlook inbox to deliver payloads, making it stealthy and hard to detect. A new Linux version of the GoGra backdoor uses Microsoft’s Graph API and an Outlook inbox to deliver malicious payloads stealthily. The malware is linked to the Harvester cyberespionage group, which is…
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Checkmarx KICS Docker Repo Hijacked in Malicious Code Injection Attack
Tags: attack, cloud, credentials, cyber, docker, infrastructure, injection, malicious, software, supply-chain, threatA massive software supply chain attack has targeted the official Checkmarx KICS (Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure) Docker Hub repository. Discovered on April 22, 2026, by Docker and Socket, the compromise involves trojanized Docker images and malicious VS Code extensions designed to harvest and exfiltrate highly sensitive developer credentials and cloud infrastructure secrets. Threat actors…
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Tropic Trooper Pivots to AdaptixC2 and Custom Beacon Listener
IntroductionOn March 12, 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered a malicious ZIP archive containing military-themed document lures targeting Chinese-speaking individuals. Our analysis of this sample uncovered a campaign leveraging a multi-stage attack chain where a trojanized SumatraPDF reader deploys an AdaptixC2 Beacon agent, ultimately leading to the download and abuse of Visual Studio (VS) Code tunnels for…
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Riddled with flaws, serialEthernet converters endanger critical infrastructure
Tags: access, authentication, control, credentials, data, data-breach, exploit, firmware, flaw, infrastructure, malicious, network, open-source, password, rce, remote-code-execution, risk, service, threat, update, vulnerabilityNew RCE and other vulnerabilities: Aside from all the known vulnerabilities from open-source components, the Forescout researchers also performed manual security analysis and identified previously unknown flaws in the firmware of three specific devices from two vendors: Lantronix EDS3000PS Series, Lantronix EDS5000 Series, and Silex SD330-AC.The web-based management interface of the Lantronix EDS5000 had five…
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Riddled with flaws, serialEthernet converters endanger critical infrastructure
Tags: access, authentication, control, credentials, data, data-breach, exploit, firmware, flaw, infrastructure, malicious, network, open-source, password, rce, remote-code-execution, risk, service, threat, update, vulnerabilityNew RCE and other vulnerabilities: Aside from all the known vulnerabilities from open-source components, the Forescout researchers also performed manual security analysis and identified previously unknown flaws in the firmware of three specific devices from two vendors: Lantronix EDS3000PS Series, Lantronix EDS5000 Series, and Silex SD330-AC.The web-based management interface of the Lantronix EDS5000 had five…
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Malicious pgserve, automagik developer tools found in npm registry
Advice to victimized developers: Developers who have downloaded the malicious versions of pgserver and automagik need to act fast, says Tanya Janca, head of Canadian secure coding consultancy SheHacksPurple.”Rotate every credential you can think of, right now, before you do anything else,” she said. “Then harden your CI/CD network egress controls so your build runners…
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Supply Chain Attacks Are Getting Worse”, How to Shrink Your Exposure
<div cla In March 2026, Trivy, one of the most widely used open-source vulnerability scanners in the Kubernetes ecosystem, was weaponized against the very organizations that relied on it for security. Attackers compromised the Aqua Security repository, force-pushed malicious binaries, and poisoned 75 of 76 version tags in the process. Any pipeline that pulled trivy:latest…
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The Invisible Threat: Business Logic Flaws in Modern Applications and Why Scanners Miss Them
<div cla In today’s security landscape, some of the most dangerous vulnerabilities aren’t flagged by automated scanners at all. These are the business logic flaws: subtle mistakes in an application’s design or workflow that malicious actors can exploit by doing the unexpected. As a result, companies can be blindsided by breaches even when their vulnerability…
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AI-Powered Agentic Browser Defense Blog – Menlo Security
Stop zero-hour threats with the Menlo HEAT Shield Agent. A browser-native AI solution using Gemini to block malicious sites and automate SOC policy in real-time First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/ai-powered-agentic-browser-defense-blog-menlo-security/
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Malicious KICS Docker Images and VS Code Extensions Hit Checkmarx Supply Chain
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of malicious images pushed to the official “checkmarx/kics” Docker Hub repository.In an alert published today, software supply chain security company Socket revealed that unknown threat actors managed to have overwritten existing tags, including v2.1.20 and alpine, while also introducing a new v2.1.21 tag that does not correspond to an official release.…
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Malicious TikTok Downloader Extensions Quietly Compromised 130K Users
Tags: maliciousMalicious browser extensions disguised as TikTok downloaders compromised 130,000 users, exposing a growing blind spot in enterprise security. The post Malicious TikTok Downloader Extensions Quietly Compromised 130K Users appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-malicious-tiktok-downloader-extensions/
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Malicious trading website drops malware that hands your browser to attackers
A fake TradingView AI agent site leads to malware that can take over your browser, steal your accounts and financial data, and open the door to further attacks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/malicious-trading-website-drops-malware-that-hands-your-browser-to-attackers/
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Malicious Google Ads Hit Crypto Users With Wallet Drainers
Malicious Google Ads are increasingly being used to steal cryptocurrency by draining wallets and harvesting seed phrases from unsuspecting users searching for legitimate DeFi apps and wallet services. Recent campaigns tracked by SEAL show a sustained, technically advanced operation that actively evades Google’s automated defenses while directly targeting both retail users and crypto organizations. In…
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109 Fake GitHub Repos Spread SmartLoader, StealC Malware
A coordinated malware operation is abusing fake GitHub repositories to distribute a LuaJIT-based loader, SmartLoader, and a follow-on StealC infostealer, with at least 109 malicious repos active across 103 accounts. The campaign blends cloned open source code, obfuscated Lua stages, and blockchain-backed C2 resolution to evade detection and keep infrastructure agile. Instead of relying on…
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NFC tappay gets tapped by hackers
AI was likely used: ESET researchers also spotted something unusual in the malware’s internals. Some traces suggested generative AI may have played a role in its development.Specifically, the injected malicious code contains emoji markers in debug logs, something more commonly associated with AI-generated output than human-written malware. The researchers noted that this isn’t definitive proof…
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Critical Spring Authorization Server Issue Exposes Systems to XSS and SSRF Attacks
A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-22752, has been disclosed in Spring Security Authorization Server, affecting organizations running Dynamic Client Registration endpoints. The flaw allows attackers to inject malicious client metadata, potentially leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Privilege Escalation, and Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks. The vulnerability was responsibly reported by security researcher Kelvin Mbogo and officially disclosed…
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NGate Campaign Targets Brazil, Trojanizes HandyPay to Steal NFC Data and PINs
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new iteration of an Android malware family calledNGate that has been found to abuse a legitimate application called HandyPay instead of NFCGate.”The threat actors took the app, which is used to relay NFC data, and patched it with malicious code that appears to have been AI-generated,” ESET security researcher Lukáš…
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GitHub Issue Alerts Exploited in OAuth Phishing Scam Targeting Developers
Hackers are abusing GitHub’s own issue-notification emails to phish developers and silently take over their repositories using malicious OAuth applications, effectively turning trusted DevOps tooling into a supply-chain attack vector. Developers are now prime targets because compromising their accounts gives attackers direct access to source code CI/CD pipelines, and production workflows, making this a textbook supply-chain attack…
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12 Fraudulent Browser Extensions Disguised as TikTok Downloaders Compromise 130K Users
LayerX security researchers have uncovered a massive, highly coordinated campaign involving at least 12 malicious browser extensions on the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge marketplaces. Disguised as legitimate TikTok video downloaders, these extensions secretly track user activity and harvest sensitive data. The operation has successfully compromised over 130,000 users, with approximately 12,500 installations still active…
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Malicious GGUF Models Could Trigger Remote Code Execution on SGLang Servers
Security researchers have uncovered a critical vulnerability in SGLang, a widely used framework for running large language models, that allows threat actors to compromise inference servers. Tracked as CVE-2026-5760, this flaw enables Remote Code Execution (RCE) when a server loads a maliciously crafted GGUF model file. By simply hosting a weaponized model on platforms like…
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China’s Apple App Store infiltrated by crypto-stealing wallet apps
A set of 26 malicious apps on Apple App Store impersonate popular wallets, such as Metamask, Coinbase, Trust Wallet, and OneKey, to steal recovery or seed phrases and drain them of cryptocurrency assets. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinas-apple-app-store-infiltrated-by-crypto-stealing-wallet-apps/
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SGLang CVE-2026-5760 (CVSS 9.8) Enables RCE via Malicious GGUF Model Files
Tags: cve, cvss, exploit, injection, malicious, open-source, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in SGLang that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution on susceptible systems.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5760, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of command injection leading to the execution of arbitrary code.SGLang is a high-performance,…
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Fake TikTok Downloaders on Chrome and Edge Spying on 130,000 Users
Over 130,000 users are at risk from fake TikTok downloader extensions on Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Researchers discovered these malicious tools use device fingerprinting to spy on users and steal sensitive browser data. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/fake-tiktok-downloaders-chrome-edge-spy-users/
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WhatsApp Leaks User Metadata to Attackers
Strangers can infer limited info about you without knowing or messaging you, which could theoretically aid certain kinds of malicious activity. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/whatsapp-leaks-user-metadata
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Why the Axios attack proves AI is mandatory for supply chain security
Two weeks ago, a suspected North Korean threat actor slipped malicious code into a package within Axios, a widely used JavaScript library. The immediate concern was the blast radius: roughly 100 million weekly downloads spanning enterprises, startups, and government systems. But beyond the sheer scale, the attack’s speed was just as worrisome a stark […]…
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Attackers abuse Microsoft Teams to impersonate the IT helpdesk in a new enterprise intrusion playbook
Cross-tenant risk grows: The attack chain uses Teams’ cross-tenant communication capability, which allows external users to initiate chats with employees, Microsoft wrote in the blog.”The cross-tenant risk is significant, and many organizations probably do underestimate it,” said Sunil Varkey, advisor at Beagle Security.”Collaboration tools were designed to reduce friction, but many organizations enabled that convenience…
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Intel Utility Hijacked in AppDomain Attack to Launch Malware
Hackers are abusing a trusted Intel utility to quietly launch advanced malware by hijacking the .NET AppDomain mechanism, allowing malicious code to run inside a signed executable and evade many enterprise defenses. The campaign, dubbed Operation PhantomCLR by researchers, targets financial and other organizations in the Middle East and wider EMEA region using highly targeted…
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52M-Download protobuf.js Library Hit by RCE in Schema Handling
Critical RCE flaw in protobuf.js lets attackers execute code via malicious schemas. Learn who is at risk, affected versions, and how to fix it. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/52m-download-protobuf-js-library-rce-schema-handle/