Hacktron has opened Hacktron Review for Open Source, giving qualifying open source projects its commercial pull-request security reviewer at no cost. The announcement argues that attackers use AI agents to hunt vulnerabilities at scale and to push malicious dependencies into open source. It cites CISA and VulnCheck data that median time-t…
The threat actor behind the GhostAction supply chain campaign has expanded beyond malicious GitHub Actions workflows. According to OpenSourceMalware, it now phishes open-source maintainers and plants a second-stage credential stealer disguised as a font file. The shift appears to follow GitHub's October 9 block on the malicious workflow, …
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…
An attacker pushed forged commits to the default branches of two unrelated GitHub projects, hugo-paper and mevn-cli. The commits add a preinstall hook (scripts/preinstall.js) that downloads and silently runs a second-stage script from buildwithknexus.xyz during npm install or bun install. The commits copy the author, date and message of t…
In September 2026, researchers reported an attack that began inside a live AI coding assistant session at a software company. The attacker gained control of a developer's session, and the assistant recommended a PyPI package that looked normal. The developer installed it, and a hidden infostealer took source code, repository secrets and h…
The weekly InfoStealers report for 12-19 October 2026 summarises stealer-log telemetry on compromised machines, credentials and sessions. The United States ranks 8 by country of infection with 438 machines. Gmail is the most affected email provider with 1,225,748 users, followed by Hotmail (90,554) and Yahoo (33,493). Sessions and saved c…
TrustedSec's Justin Bollinger describes how a prek pre-push hook corrupted his git index on July 30. The resulting commit deleted 85,280 lines across about 165 files and staged gitignored, local-only paths (CLAUDE.md, .claude/, docs/plans/, docs/superpowers/). The commit reached the public trustedsec/hatecrack remote before it was force-p…