Tag: supply-chain
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ChocoPoC Campaign Abuses GitHub PoC Repositories to Steal Browser Credentials
A coordinated supply-chain campaign has been weaponizing GitHub proof-of-concept (PoC) repositories to compromise vulnerability researchers and penetration testers, delivering a stealthy Python Remote Access Trojan (RAT) dubbed “ChocoPoC.” The lure is simple and effective: newly disclosed high-severity CVEs create urgency for fast PoC and scanner module development. Adversaries create seemingly legitimate PoC repositories that include…
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‘Phantom Squatting’: An Emerging AI-Driven Supply Chain Threat
LLMs consistently hallucinate Web domains for legitimate brands that attackers can register for malicious activity in a difficult-to-detect attack vector. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/phantom-squatting-ai-driven-supply-chain-threat
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Attackers Register AI-Hallucinated Domains to Deliver Phishing Kits and Malware
An emergent supply-chain attack vector they term >>phantom squatting,<< in which large language models (LLMs) routinely hallucinate plausible but nonexistent domains for legitimate brands and adversaries then preemptively register those domains to host phishing kits, malware, and other malicious infrastructure. By systematically probing two distinct LLM families across temperature settings, Unit 42 generated a 2.1…
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XSS.is, The Forum That Ran the Ransomware Supply Chain Is Down. The Market Isn’t
Police arrested the alleged admin of XSS.is, a major cybercrime forum whose trusted escrow service helped power the underground economy. On 22 July 2025, French and Ukrainian police arrested a 38-year-old man in Kyiv and shut down XSS.is, the most influential Russian-language cybercrime forum of the past decade. Europol, which coordinated the operation under the…
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Aikido Buys Root for $70M to Automate Open-Source Patching
Deal Adds Hardened Packages, Automated CVE Fixes to Application Security Platform. Belgian software vendor Aikido Security acquired Boston-based Root for $70 million to embed automated vulnerability remediation into its application security platform, enabling enterprises to deploy hardened open-source packages and container images while reducing software supply-chain risk. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/aikido-buys-root-for-70m-to-automate-open-source-patching-a-32118
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29th June Threat Intelligence Report
Polymarket, a large cryptocurrency-based prediction market, has confirmed a supply chain attack after a third-party frontend vendor breach led to malicious JavaScript being injected into its website. Attackers tricked users into approving fraudulent […] First seen on research.checkpoint.com Jump to article: research.checkpoint.com/2026/29th-june-threat-intelligence-report-2/
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ClawHavoc Attack Hits ClawHub With 1,184 Malicious Skills and 247,000 Installations
The AI-agent ecosystem experienced its largest supply-chain compromise to date when ClawHavoc detonated across ClawHub, the official skill marketplace for OpenClaw. Our full AIG-powered scan of nearly 50,000 ClawHub Skills found 1,184 clearly malicious packages tied to 12 compromised publisher accounts and confirmed 247,693 installations. The campaign combined typosquatting, ranking manipulation, and multi-stage payload delivery…
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Post-Quantum Security Spurs National Sovereignty Thinking
AI Export Controls Expose Hidden Risks to Post-Quantum Cryptography Migrations. Security leaders warn that post-quantum cryptography migration is creating new dependencies on foreign vendors, hyperscalers and supply chains, raising questions about resilience, crypto-agility and national control over critical security infrastructure. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/post-quantum-security-spurs-national-sovereignty-thinking-a-32095
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Post-Quantum Security Spurs National Sovereignty Thinking
AI Export Controls Expose Hidden Risks to Post-Quantum Cryptography Migrations. Security leaders warn that post-quantum cryptography migration is creating new dependencies on foreign vendors, hyperscalers and supply chains, raising questions about resilience, crypto-agility and national control over critical security infrastructure. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/post-quantum-security-spurs-national-sovereignty-thinking-a-32095
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Post-Quantum Security Spurs National Sovereignty Thinking
AI Export Controls Expose Hidden Risks to Post-Quantum Cryptography Migrations. Security leaders warn that post-quantum cryptography migration is creating new dependencies on foreign vendors, hyperscalers and supply chains, raising questions about resilience, crypto-agility and national control over critical security infrastructure. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/post-quantum-security-spurs-national-sovereignty-thinking-a-32095
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Polymarket customers lose $3 million in supply-chain attack
Polymarket says it will fully reimburse customers who lost an estimated $3 million after hackers injected a malicious script into the platform’s frontend following a breach at a third-party vendor. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/polymarket-customers-lose-3-million-in-supply-chain-attack/
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Miasma Malware Targets npm Packages and GitHub Actions in Supply Chain Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the supply chain attack linked to the Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades malware family that has compromised a new set of npm packages, even as it has propagated to the Go ecosystem.”The latest activity includes malicious npm releases affecting LeoPlatform and RStreams packages, GitHub Actions workflow abuse,…
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Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Poisons LeoPlatform npm Packages to Steal Developer and CI/CD Secrets
A fresh supply-chain wave tied to the Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades malware families is actively poisoning npm packages in the LeoPlatform and RStreams ecosystems and expanding into source-repository compromises. The intrusion blends registry poisoning, install-time execution via binding.gyp, Bun-staged JavaScript loaders, GitHub Actions abuse, and persistence hooks for IDEs and AI coding assistants an…
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Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Poisons LeoPlatform npm Packages to Steal Developer and CI/CD Secrets
A fresh supply-chain wave tied to the Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades malware families is actively poisoning npm packages in the LeoPlatform and RStreams ecosystems and expanding into source-repository compromises. The intrusion blends registry poisoning, install-time execution via binding.gyp, Bun-staged JavaScript loaders, GitHub Actions abuse, and persistence hooks for IDEs and AI coding assistants an…
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Shai-Hulud Hades Payload Hits 20 Leo/RStreams npm Packages in Fresh Supply Chain Attack
A fresh supply-chain wave by the Shai-Hulud/Hades family that infected 20 npm packages in the Leo/RStreams ecosystem, an AWS-native event streaming SDK widely used for Kinesis, Firehose, Lambda and S3-based pipelines. The malicious releases were detected shortly after publication and, while not a dramatic redesign of prior Hades/Miasma variants, demonstrate the malware family’s continued operational…
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Major Increase in Ransomware Attacks Targeting Europe, Warns New Report
Analysis of ransomware incidents by researchers at Black Kite found that attacks have risen by over 50% in the last year, with supply chain attacks increasing First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/increase-ransomware-europe/
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Plugins verteilen Schadcode über manipuliertes CDN-Skript – Supply-Chain-Angriff trifft 1,2 Millionen WordPress-Seiten
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/wordpress-supply-chain-angriff-optinmonster-cdn-schadcode-a-b2cef61d808bf531e17d4f573af7f099/
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More Malicious OpenClaw Skills Threaten AI Supply Chain
OpenClaw removed five packages from ClawHub, its skills marketplace, that bypassed security checks even though they included infostealers and other threats. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/malicious-openclaw-skills-clawhub-threaten-ai-supply-chain
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Black Duck Lands Leader Spot in Gartner’s Brand-New Software Supply Chain Security Magic Quadrant
Application security firm Black Duck has been named a Leader in Gartner’s first-ever Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security, the company announced today. The inaugural report assessed 18 vendors against two axes, Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute, and placed Black Duck firmly in the Leaders quadrant. The timing of the report reflects…
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Cordyceps CI/CD Flaws Expose 300+ GitHub Repositories to Supply-Chain Attacks
Tags: apache, attack, control, cybersecurity, flaw, github, google, microsoft, open-source, supply-chainCybersecurity researchers have flagged a new class of CI/CD workflow weakness that allows attackers to hijack workflows and compromise open-source supply chains.The “critical exploitable pattern” has been codenamed Cordyceps by Novee Security. The issue can allow full attacker control of repositories at dozens of the largest organizations worldwide, including Microsoft, Google, Apache, and First seen…
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Grafana Confirms TanStack npm Supply Chain Attack Led to GitHub Repository Cloning
Grafana Labs has confirmed that a recent supply chain attack involving the TanStack npm ecosystem resulted in the cloning of its internal GitHub repositories. However, it did not compromise customer production systems or the Grafana Cloud platform. This disclosure follows a thorough internal investigation completed on May 27, 2026, as well as an independent forensic…
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LastPass customer data exposed through Klue supply chain attack
LastPass disclosed that attackers used OAuth tokens compromised in a supply chain attack on Klue, a market intelligence platform that integrates with CRM and sales tools … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/24/lastpass-klue-data-breach-salesforce-environment/
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LastPass Confirms Customer Data Breach After Klue OAuth Token Theft
LastPass has confirmed it was affected by the Klue supply chain incident, saying an unauthorised actor used stolen… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/lastpass-customer-data-breach-klue-oauth-token/
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Klue investigating supply chain attack that targeted Salesforce integrations
Customer data from several prominent cybersecurity firms were among hundreds of potential enterprise victims. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/klue-investigating-supply-chain-attack-salesforce-integrations/823532/
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GitHub Updates actions/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns
GitHub is moving to strengthen software supply chain security by updating “actions/checkout” to block pwn request attacks that exploit the risky use of the “pull_request_target workflow” trigger to run malicious code with the workflow’s full privileges.Effective June 18, 2026, the latest version of “actions/checkout,” the official GitHub action for checking out a repository into the…
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LastPass confirms data breach in Klue supply chain attack
LastPass announced that hackers accessed customer data from its Salesforce environment after stealing the company’s OAuth tokens in the Klue supply chain attack earlier this month. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-confirms-data-breach-in-klue-supply-chain-attack/
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Cordyceps Supply chain Vulnerability Impacting Code Repositories at thousands of Organizations
A pervasive CI/CD vulnerability pattern dubbed “Cordyceps” reveals a supply chain vulnerability that lets unauthenticated attackers seize control of Git-based workflows and, by extension, the software artifacts they produce. The issue is not a single bug in GitHub or any one tool; it is a systemic class of insecure workflow compositions. Command injection, broken authentication…
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ShapedPlugin Supply Chain Attack Backdoors Pro Plugin Updates
Attackers backdoored ShapedPlugin Pro updates, deploying malware that steals credentials, 2FA secrets, and grants full site access. If you installed a ShapedPlugin Pro plugin between April and June 2026 and kept it updated, your site may be compromised. Not because you did something wrong, but because the vendor’s own build and distribution pipeline was breached.…
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ShapedPlugin Supply Chain Attack Backdoors Pro Plugin Updates
Attackers backdoored ShapedPlugin Pro updates, deploying malware that steals credentials, 2FA secrets, and grants full site access. If you installed a ShapedPlugin Pro plugin between April and June 2026 and kept it updated, your site may be compromised. Not because you did something wrong, but because the vendor’s own build and distribution pipeline was breached.…