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On 4 August 2026, an npm worm published 2,234 poisoned versions across 444 package names, using credentials from twelve organisations. Affected scopes include @ornikar, @deliveroo, @onereach, @or-sdk, @servicetitan, @qlik, @picsart, and the keyv and cacheable families. The keyv, flat-cache, file-entry-cache and cacheable-request packages …
FortiGuard Labs analyzed a SectopRAT variant that is embedded in legitimate software to evade detection. The malware uses a multi-stage loader to extract its payload from files, then applies API hashing, indirect function calls and in-memory loading to run the final .NET payload. Once running, it sets up encrypted communication with its C…
AI-assisted "vibe coding" is lowering the barrier to app development, but it is also producing apps with common security oversights that app marketplaces do not necessarily flag. The article cites a report that 84% of developers were using or planning to use AI tools, and a Lovable-hosted app in which a researcher found 16 vulnerabilities…
Publicly reported data breaches in the US reached an all-time high last year, with over 3,300 incidents and nearly 280 million victim notices. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that over 471 million notices went out in the first half of 2026, but only 24% described the attack vector, the lowest rate it has recorded. The ar…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup (Week 39, 2026) covers one law enforcement success and two active threat campaigns. A US court sentenced Armenian national Karen Serobovich Vardanyan ("Maneeken"/"Karl Lagerfeld"), an initial access specialist for Ryuk ransomware, to two years in prison and over $1.2 million in restitution. SentinelLABS ide…
Unit 42 reports that threat actors are moving supply chain malware C2 from hardcoded endpoints to Web3 mechanisms, so an entire botnet or worm infrastructure can be re-pointed with a single blockchain transaction. The ChainDrop npm worm (Shai-Hulud family, 400+ npm packages) and the PolinRider campaign (npm, Go modules, Packagist) target …
Straiker reports that a criminal group it tracks as AiPT-67 (operating as Tr4nsHack Team under the name Hexagon Security Labs Mexico) used a multi-agent system called CARLIY0S to coordinate attacks against more than 400 financial institutions and payment providers in Latin America. The system combined commercial AI models, Anthropic's Cla…
LiteLLM version 1.107.0 was compromised in a supply chain attack that distributed credential-stealing malware through PyPI wheels and container images. On October 21, 2026, Socket reported that malicious Python startup hooks run even when an application never imports LiteLLM, exposing cloud credentials, developer secrets and AI tool authe…
BRONZE SANDCASTLE (written Bronze Sandcastle by thehackernews.com) is a previously undocumented intrusion set disclosed by SophosLabs on 2026-10-21. It is assessed as China-based or China-aligned and has been active since mid-2025 (thehackernews.com). Between August 2025 and August 2026 it compromised victims in the Philippines, Taiwan, A…
Unknown threat actors breached the TeamUpdraft website on 17-18 October 2026 and likely accessed its customer database, which holds connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault and UpdraftClone. Patchstack observed an attacker holding valid UpdraftCentral dashboard keys issuing signed commands to install backdoor plugins on connected …
The FBI, CISA, DC3, NSA, USSS and the Republic of Korea's KNPA issued joint advisory AA26-222A on Gunra ransomware. Gunra appeared in April 2025 as a double-extortion variant derived from the leaked Conti source code. It launched a structured RaaS affiliate program in January 2026, also operating under the alias Golden Community, and recr…
SafeDep reports that the PolinRider loader family now resolves its C2 servers from Ethereum mainnet. The loader reads small transactions from operator wallets and decodes the recipient address as an IP:port. SafeDep confirmed 35 GitHub repositories carrying the loader at HEAD on 2026-09-30 (7,578 stars and 2,884 forks combined). The inves…
SafeDep reports that the npm package imgdecode (versions 1.0.0-1.0.3, publisher malfexteste8) is part of the MALFEX campaign, which targets Windows developers. After npm removed earlier JavaScript loaders, the operator moved the loader logic into a compiled Node.js native addon (a Windows DLL). On require('imgdecode') from an interactive …
Unit 42 analyzed an Atomic macOS (AMOS) stealer infection generated in a lab on Aug. 5, 2026, starting from a fake "macOS toolkit" instruction page hosted at getmacouscloud.com. The page tells victims to paste a command into Terminal, a ClickFix-style copy/paste technique, which downloads a Zsh script and then installs a Mach-O AMOS paylo…
Researchers at SafeDep identified imgdecode, a malicious npm package tied to the long-running MALFEX supply chain campaign first documented by Checkmarx and CloudSEK. Published on September 30, 2026 by user "malfexteste8", it has been downloaded 979 times and was still available at the time of reporting (latest version 1.0.3). MALFEX has …
Researchers at SafeDep analyzed a macOS implant recovered from a compromised workstation. Infection began on 2026-07-26 with a paid YouTube video ad impersonating TradingView that led to a fake .pkg installer. The malware is a remote-controlled task runner, not a single-purpose stealer. It persists via a LaunchAgent that re-fetches a shel…
SafeDep identified a malicious tensorlake npm release, version 0.5.144 (about 106,000 monthly downloads), that ran a Mini Shai-Hulud worm on install. It was published at 01:12:07 UTC on 8 October and flagged by SafeDep eight minutes later. The attacker used a repository administrator account to commit the payload to main through the GitHu…
Kaspersky researchers describe a new MacSync macOS infostealer variant, first seen in the wild in September 2026, that replaces the earlier AppleScript-based droppers with FAT Mach-O binaries written in Objective-C and Swift. MacSync is sold as malware-as-a-service, so delivery varies by operator. In this campaign it spread through malici…
Elastic Security Labs is tracking REF8801, a campaign in which a fake Web3 venture capital accelerator, Apex Accelerator (Apex Foundation), targets cryptocurrency startups and founders with malicious npm packages. The packages, @apexacc/cli and @apexacc/audit, pose as an AI advisor and an MCP-based security scanner, with offers of free Cl…
ConnectWise suspended Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick), SaaS Security and Cloud Management after unknown actors gained unauthorized access to its application identities and used them to sign in to customers' Microsoft 365 tenants. ConnectWise says it identified the incident on October 14, 2026 (thehackernews.com) and began mitigations on O…
