This Week in Cyber: An AI Coding Assistant Helped Run a Ransomware Attack, and Azure Logins for 9 Major Firms Hit the Dark Web
Two stories from this week show how enterprise security is being reshaped from both ends: a ransomware affiliate reportedly used an AI coding assistant to breach VPNs and...
Stolen Azure Logins Expose Employee Data at McDonald’s, Vodafone and Seven Other Global Firms
A dark-web seller known as TheHatman is offering internal employee directories lifted from nine Fortune 500 companies, including McDonald's and Vodafone, after harvesting Azure Active Directory credentials through...
Shai-Hulud Malware Expands to npm Ecosystem, Stealing Cloud and CI/CD Credentials From Developers
A credential-stealing malware campaign known as Shai-Hulud has expanded to target developers using the Leo/RStreams npm package ecosystem, harvesting GitHub tokens, cloud access keys, CI/CD secrets, and SSH...
FortiBleed: Over 73,000 Fortinet Firewalls Compromised in Industrial-Scale Cyber Espionage Campaign
An industrial-scale cyber espionage campaign dubbed "FortiBleed" has silently compromised over 73,932 unique Fortinet firewall URLs across 194 countries, targeting Fortune 500 companies, government entities, and a NATO...
Critical Supply Chain Attack: 31 Red Hat Cloud Services npm Packages Backdoored to Steal Cloud and Dev Credentials
A sophisticated supply chain attack dubbed "Miasma: The Spreading Blight" has backdoored over 30 official @redhat-cloud-services npm packages, deploying credential-stealing malware that targets AWS, Azure, GCP secrets, GitHub...
Massive Supply Chain Attack: Poisoned VS Code Extension and “Megalodon” Campaign Steal Credentials from Millions of Developers
Two coordinated supply chain attacks poisoned the Nx Console VS Code extension (2.2M installs) and backdoored 5,561 GitHub repositories simultaneously, stealing cloud credentials and 3,800 internal GitHub source...
Malicious NuGet Package Impersonates Sicoob Banking SDK to Steal mTLS Certificates and Financial Credentials
A malicious NuGet package named "Sicoob.Sdk" impersonated the official Sicoob banking SDK and silently exfiltrated PFX certificates, private keys, and banking credentials from 484 downloads using Sentry telemetry...
TeamPCP Poisons Microsoft’s Official Python DurableTask SDK — Multi-Cloud Credential Worm Hits PyPI
The TeamPCP threat group has compromised three consecutive versions of Microsoft's official Python DurableTask SDK on PyPI, injecting a worm-like payload that steals multi-cloud credentials from AWS, Azure,...