Wiz describes a supply chain detection pipeline that analyzes new npm package versions at publication, so malicious releases can be flagged before a CVE or advisory exists. Wiz Research says notable supply chain attacks rose from about 10% of significant incidents in H2 2025 to 25% in H1 2026. The article cites two compromises: the Axios …
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act (FASCSA) order directing federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek AI products from their IT systems and to stop acquiring them. The notice is due to be published in the Federal Register on October 20, 2026 and names Hangzhou DeepS…
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…
Ticketmaster confirmed a security incident that exposed personal data of customers in Brazil who bought tickets in 2025. The company notified affected users by email and reported the case to the Brazilian data protection authority (ANPD). According to the company, the incident involved a third-party data analytics tool. The investigation,…
Mid Florida Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, a 33-location medical group in central Florida, reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights a breach affecting 85,585 individuals. An unauthorized third party accessed its network from March 26 to March 30, 2026, and patient files may have been viewed or acquired. Two other healthcare incidents w…
Boston Children's Health Physicians (BCHP) and its managed IT provider XTIUM (formerly Axispoint Technology Solutions Group) settled with the New York and Connecticut Attorneys General over an August 2024 breach affecting almost 890,000 individuals. The settlement carries a $4 million penalty, of which $2.7 million is payable (New York $2…
ConnectWise has disabled its cloud backup offering amid concern for downstream managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers. Researchers say attackers authenticated into Microsoft 365 tenants using ConnectWise credentials. ConnectWise says customer impact remains unconfirmed. The available article text is limited to the headline a…
A supply-chain attack compromised Rank Math PRO (WordPress SEO plugin) version 3.0.123, downloaded from the vendor's official website between October 15 20:02 UTC and October 16 07:12 UTC. The trojanized package planted persistent, self-recreating hidden backdoors on sites where it was activated, and exposed database credentials, API keys…
TLDR: PostHog used Playwright Chromium with --no-sandbox for heatmap screenshots. I used Claude to write a V8 n-day (CVE-2026-7899) exploit, got production RCE in a worker container with prod db access. I then used the same exploit as an evaluation for open-weight models. With the increasing number of supply chain attacks, I was thinking …
SafeDep research shows that Cursor's Import VS Code Configuration step copies only the publisher.extensionname of each installed extension and drops the version. Cursor then installs whatever version Open VSX (run by the Eclipse Foundation) calls latest, through its proxy marketplace.cursorapi.com. In SafeDep's test, three extensions pinn…
SafeDep announced SafeDep Threat Intel, an add-on to any paid plan that gives SOC and cyber defense teams the malicious package intelligence behind its platform. It is a product announcement, not a security incident. Customers can query the data directly or push it into existing tooling to defend against software supply chain attacks. It …
FortiGuard Incident Response reports a supply chain attack on the QuickFox Windows application, whose trojanized components deployed the FDMTP implant to users. QuickFox's user base is mainly Chinese international students and expats. Affected Windows versions are those later than v3.0.35 and earlier than v3.55.6. QuickFox has removed the…
A breach of the Mindbox marketing automation platform in August 2024 exposed data belonging to Burger King Russia customers. News of the incident broke in October 2024, and the dataset was added to Have I Been Pwned on 21 Sep 2026. It contains 3.2M unique email addresses along with names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and approxi…
The Rank Math PRO WordPress SEO plugin was hit by a supply chain attack. Some packages of version 3.0.123 contained malware that could let attackers take over websites once the plugin was activated. Users who downloaded or updated the plugin between October 15, 2026 20:02 UTC and October 16, 2026 07:12 UTC may be infected. Rank Math remov…
Rank Math disclosed that copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid WordPress SEO plugin, downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16, 2026 contained malware. Any site that installed and activated an affected copy should be treated as compromised. The malware can recreate its hid…
Hardware hacker Joe Grand found tampered Trezor Model T and Trezor One wallets sold through unauthorized third-party channels (Facebook Marketplace in Canada in 2025, and a TikTok shop in August 2026, shipped from China). The attackers replaced the microcontroller with one running malicious firmware that hands users one of about a dozen p…
ConnectWise took several cloud services offline, including Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick), SaaS Security and Cloud Management, after finding unauthorized access to application identities in the ConnectWise Cloud Backup environment. The company began investigating suspicious activity on October 15 and confirmed the unauthorized access by …
Huntress reports that manufacturing accounted for about 17% of cyber attacks in 2025, up from 9% in 2024, citing its own cyber threat report. The article is a vendor trends piece rather than an incident report. It argues that ransomware operators now target production uptime and operational technology (OT), not just data, because manufact…
A threat actor obtained a highly sensitive API secret for ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) and used it to sign in to customers' Microsoft 365 tenants, forcing ConnectWise to suspend its Cloud Backup, SaaS Security and Cloud Management services. Huntress saw sign-in activity from the malicious infrastructure across almost 1,000 …
Between April and July 2026, the threat actor UNC7017 tampered with the AOMEI Backupper update infrastructure several times to deliver the CrossRoad downloader and the ShinyRoad modular backdoor. Each tampering window lasted only five to ten minutes before reverting to authentic files. This made the campaign hard to detect and suggests it…