Tag: worm
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GitHub dismissed security reports on flaws now exploited by supply-chain worm, researchers say
GitHub rejected two formal vulnerability reports identifying design flaws that researchers say are enabling variants of the Shai-Hulud supply-chain worm to infect and compromise hundreds of software packages and developer accounts worldwide. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/github-dismissed-reports-shai-hulud-deep-specter
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 101
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter IronWorm: Shai-Hulud’s rustier cousin Trojanized ai-sdk-ollama Delivers Miasma, a Self-Replicating npm Worm via binding.gyp Inside the Cross-Platform Propagation of a New Gafgyt Variant C0XMO Using AI Agents to Analyze Malware on REMnux The Miasma…
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Researchers build autonomous AI worm that can reason and adapt
University of Toronto researchers created a proof-of-concept AI worm that dynamically identifies vulnerabilities and adapts its attack strategies. Here’s what it means for enterprises. First seen on techtarget.com Jump to article: www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366643829/Researchers-build-autonomous-AI-worm-that-can-reason-adapt
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The Gentlemen Ransomware Claims 478 Victims, Can Spread Like a Worm
A new analysis of The Gentlemen operation has revealed that the financially motivated threat group initially operated as an affiliate responsible for conducting double extortion attacks, while leveraging resources from various ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) schemes like LockBit (aka Tenacious Mantis), Qilin (aka Pestilent Mantis), and Medusa (aka Venomous Mantis).According to a detailed report First seen on…
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Worm Code Leaked, AI Agent Phished, Claude Code Patch + 28 New Stories
It’s been one of those weeks. You expect the usual noise: recycled malware, sloppy attacks, another easy target getting hit. Instead, there’s a supply chain attack kit in a public repo, a $5,000-a-month RAT that clones browsers, and research showing AI agents can be tricked into leaking real credentials.The bigger problem is how polished this…
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Worm Code Leaked, AI Agent Phished, Claude Action Patch + 28 New Stories
It’s been one of those weeks. You expect the usual noise: recycled malware, sloppy attacks, another easy target getting hit. Instead, there’s a supply chain attack kit in a public repo, a $5,000-a-month RAT that clones browsers, and research showing AI agents can be tricked into leaking real credentials.The bigger problem is how polished this…
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Smashing Security podcast #471: This AI worm just rewrote its own rules
Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the powerful ones to host its own AI brain. And then the researchers discovered their creation had quietly removed the list of…
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The ‘Miasma’ worm source code briefly leaked on GitHub
The Miasma credential-stealing attack framework, which has recently targeted open-source ecosystems through supply-chain attacks, was briefly open-sourced on GitHub. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-miasma-worm-source-code-briefly-leaked-on-github/
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Miasma Worm Compromises 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories
The Miasma worm compromised 73 Microsoft GitHub repos, spreading via AI coding tools and stealing cloud credentials from developers and CI/CD systems. A self-replicating worm called Miasma has compromised 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories and forced GitHub staff to disable them. The affected repos include core Azure infrastructure like azure-functions-host and the entire Durable Task family…
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Miasma Worm Compromises 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories
The Miasma worm compromised 73 Microsoft GitHub repos, spreading via AI coding tools and stealing cloud credentials from developers and CI/CD systems. A self-replicating worm called Miasma has compromised 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories and forced GitHub staff to disable them. The affected repos include core Azure infrastructure like azure-functions-host and the entire Durable Task family…
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Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models
University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each target it encounters, and replicate itself, all without human intervention and without touching a commercial AI service.The preprint, posted to…
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Miasma Worm Hits Microsoft’s AI Coding Ecosystem
Attackers Compromised More Than 70 Microsoft Repositories in Under 2 Minutes. Attackers linked to the Miasma supply-chain campaign compromised a Microsoft contributor account and pushed malicious code into more than 70 repositories, using artificial intelligence-assisted coding tools as an infection path to steal credentials and developer secrets at scale. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Instagram Account Hacks, Android Zero-Day, GitHub Worm and More
Monday again. The weekend was meant to be quiet. It wasn’t. Last week had poisoned packages, a broken AI helper, and a worm tearing through repos. The ugly part: basic tricks still worked.A chatbot got fooled. A bot token got leaked inside the malware. The same old mistakes showed up again. And while everyone chased…
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Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack
Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign.The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware. The development has GitHub to disable access to those repositories.”Access to this First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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IronWorm and New Miasma Worm Variant Hit npm in Supply Chain Attacks
Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively.According to JFrog, the information stealer “scrapes every secret it can find on a developer’s machine, hides behind an eBPF kernel…
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Adaptive, Agentic AI Worms Loom as Next Enterprise Threat
AI worms, or viruses with wings and brains, adapt to new environments, seek out vulnerabilities, and will likely strike within a year, researchers say. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/adaptive-agentic-ai-worms-enterprise-cyber-threat
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AI-Powered Worm Leverages Stolen Compute to Target Linux, Windows, and IoT Devices
AI-powered malware is moving from theory to reality, with new proof-of-concept worms showing how large language models (LLMs) can autonomously compromise mixed networks of Linux, Windows, and IoT devices while parasitically hijacking GPU compute for their own reasoning. Instead of shipping with a fixed exploit toolkit, this new class of AI-driven malware uses an embedded…
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IronWorm npm Attack Steals Developer Secrets
Tags: attack, credentials, crypto, cyber, data-breach, finance, malicious, software, supply-chain, wormA newly uncovered supply chain attack dubbed “IronWorm” is leveraging malicious npm packages to compromise developer environments, steal sensitive credentials, and propagate itself across repositories in a worm-like fashion. The campaign, identified in the wild, targets software developers with a particular focus on crypto and Web3 ecosystems, where exposed secrets can yield immediate financial value.…
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Autonomous AI-driven worm can reason its way through corporate networks
Researchers at the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and the University of Cambridge have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven worm that does not operate … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/03/autonomous-ai-worm-prototype/
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Miasma Supply Chain Attack Compromises Red Hat npm Packages with Credential-Stealing Worm
A new Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack campaign, codenamed Miasma, has compromised @redhat-cloud-services packages to steal credentials and secrets from developer machines and deliver a self-propagating worm.”This is effectively a Mini Shai-Hulud campaign: it uses the same core tactics of install-time execution, credential harvesting, CI/CD targeting, encrypted exfiltration, and potential First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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FSB Group Gamaredon Hides Worm in Windows Data Streams
FSB-linked Gamaredon concealed a fileless worm in NTFS data streams to spy on Ukraine targets First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/gamaredon-worm-ntfs-data-streams/
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The Hackers Behind Shai-Hulud: Lucky or Skilled?
TeamPCP, the hackers behind the Shai-Hulud worm, has done significant damage to the open source ecosystem. But it’s not necessarily due to skill alone. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/shai-hulud-hackers-teampcp-lucky-skilled
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Mini Shai-Hulud Hits Hundreds of npm Packages in AntV Ecosystem
Mini Shai-Hulud worm hits Alibaba AntV ecosystem in largest npm supply chain wave to date First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/antv-npm-mini-shai-hulud-largest/
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Shai-Hulud worm copycats emerge after source code leak
Shai-Hulud worm copycats are already attacking NPM developers after its source code leaked, enabling fast supply chain exploitation. The first copycats of the Shai-Hulud worm have already started showing up online, only a few days after the malware’s source code was dumped on GitHub. Researchers had warned this would happen almost immediately, and they were…
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Shai-Hulud Worm Clones Spread After Code Release
The release of Shai-Hulud source code spells trouble for software developers as researchers worry the self-replicating worm could scale. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/shai-hulud-worm-clones-spread-code-release
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Exchange 0-Day, npm Worm, Fake AI Repo, Cisco Exploit and More
Monday opens with a trust problem. A mail server flaw is under active use. A network control system was targeted. Trusted packages were poisoned. A fake model page pushed a stealer. Then came the familiar ransom claim: the data was returned and deleted.The pattern is clear. One weak dependency can leak keys. One leaked key…
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Four Malicious npm Packages Deliver Infostealers and Phantom Bot DDoS Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four new npm packages containing information-stealing malware, one of which is a clone of the Shai-Hulud worm open-sourced by TeamPCP.The list of identified packages is below -chalk-tempalte (825 Downloads)@deadcode09284814/axios-util (284 Downloads)axois-utils (963 Downloads)color-style-utils (934 Downloads)”One of the packages (chalk-tempalte) First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/05/four-malicious-npm-packages-deliver.html
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Shai-Hulud Worm Steals Dev Secrets Across npm, GitHub, AWS Kubernetes
Tags: credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, github, intelligence, kubernetes, open-source, software, threat, wormShai-Hulud is a major cybersecurity threat targeting the open-source software supply chain. Security researchers are raising alarms over “Shai-Hulud,” a self-propagating npm worm designed to steal sensitive developer credentials from GitHub, AWS, Kubernetes, and local environments. The campaign, tracked by SlowMist’s MistEye threat intelligence platform, is already being described as one of the largest npm…
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Worm Redux: Fresh Mini Shai-Hulud Infections Bite Supply Chain
Hundreds of npm packages infected by the self-propagating, credential-stealing worm from TeamPCP are related to the open source TanStack ecosystem. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/worm-redux-fresh-mini-shai-hulud-infections-bite-supply-chain
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Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Compromises TanStack, Mistral AI, Guardrails AI & More Packages
TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recent supply chain attack spree, has been linked to the compromise of the npm and PyPI packages from TanStack, UiPath, Mistral AI, OpenSearch, and Guardrails AI as part of a fresh Mini Shai-Hulud campaign.The affected npm packages have been modified to include an obfuscated JavaScript file (“router_init.js”) that’s designed…