105 Minutes of Stolen Access Turned a Trusted npm Package Into a Multi-Stage Malware Loader
Attackers hijacked a maintainer account for just 105 minutes to slip a hidden loader into a popular npm package, abusing legitimate publishing infrastructure so the poisoned release carried...
Popular npm Package With Nearly 2 Million Weekly Downloads Hid Malware That Talks to Attackers Through Ethereum
Researchers at Checkmarx uncovered a supply-chain campaign hiding inside a widely used npm package that impersonates a legitimate data-structure library. Rather than infecting machines at install time, the...
BGP Hijack Poisoned Virtualizor Updates and Put Hosting Servers at Root-Level Risk
A routing hijack diverted Softaculous infrastructure and enabled a malicious Virtualizor update to reach a small number of hosting servers. Because update packages lacked cryptographic verification, valid TLS...
Hijacked Rust Crates With 244 Million Downloads Turned Into Malware Delivery Pipeline
A typosquatted Rust package quietly hijacked two popular crates, arrayref and append-only-vec, to run an infostealer during ordinary builds. The attack hid inside an automatically-executed build script, leaving...
ChainDrop Worm Spreads Through 400+ npm Packages, Raiding Developer and Cloud Credentials
A self-propagating worm dubbed ChainDrop has infected more than 400 npm packages by hijacking trusted publishing accounts, quietly harvesting npm, GitHub, cloud, and SSH credentials from developer machines...
Researchers Find Matching RCE Flaws in Claude Code, Gemini CLI and Codex Coding Agents
Security researcher Elad Meged has uncovered a strikingly similar vulnerability pattern across AI coding agents from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, all traceable to how each vendor's surrounding 'harness'...
Fake VS Code Extensions Quietly Siphoned Git and CI Secrets From Developers
Seventy-seven counterfeit Open VSX extensions impersonated legitimate developer tools and quietly phoned home to a single attacker-controlled domain. Nineteen of them went further, harvesting Git repository details and...
How One Poisoned Tracking Script Turned a Major Ad Platform Into a Crypto-Theft Pipeline
Researchers say attackers hijacked a widely deployed JavaScript file from ad-tech company Adform, turning routine website analytics into a silent clipboard hijacker that swaps copied crypto wallet addresses...