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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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
SafeDep reports a growing npm campaign in which forks of Baileys, the WhatsApp Web library for Node.js, abuse the installer's authenticated WhatsApp session to silently follow attacker-controlled channels. Confirmed malicious packages total 82 Baileys-based package names (375 versions) and 15 libsignal-node impersonators (38 versions), ou…
TeamUpdraft, developer of UpdraftPlus, detected unauthorized access to teamupdraft.com over the weekend of 17-18 October 2026 and believes the attacker accessed its customer database. The database held customer and billing details, order history, two-factor authentication settings, and connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault and …
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 …
OVHcloud disclosed a supply-chain attack on its command-line interface (CLI) repository on GitHub. An attacker used a compromised developer's GitHub account to insert a malicious binary designed to retrieve secrets from users' disks. CEO Octave Klaba confirmed the incident on 19 October 2026 after a customer report. The compromised releas…
OVHcloud disclosed that attackers hijacked a developer's GitHub account and used it to modify the open-source OVHcloud CLI repository, publishing trojanized releases 0.11.0 through 0.15.0 that carry information-stealing malware. According to CEO Octave Klaba, the malicious release appeared at 14:47 on October 19 and was detected and block…
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…
GhostAction has returned with an expanded credential-theft operation. By October 9, 2026, attackers had injected malicious GitHub Actions workflows into 790 repositories, according to OpenSourceMalware's validated total. The campaign was first documented by GitGuardian in 2025 (817 repositories, 3,325 stolen secrets). It relies on comprom…
A Hacktron researcher argues that AI-assisted vulnerability research is rapidly widening the enterprise attack surface. He cites recent breaches at Vercel and GitHub and a wave of critical CVEs in F5, Fortinet, Cisco, Palo Alto and ImageMagick. According to the author, the Vercel compromise began with a breach of the AI platform Context.a…
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 …
Two beta versions in the @joyfill npm scope, published on July 28, 2026, carried the same blockchain C2 loader seen in the earlier astro.config.mjs attack, which the article ties to the PolinRider campaign. The attacker published through the legitimate scope (a form-builder SDK with three maintainers) under the beta dist-tag. The maliciou…
On August 12, 2026, an npm user (rootdaddy-msrc, author field r00tdaddy) published 21 packages that squatted the unscoped CLI binary names declared in the bin field of Google-affiliated scoped packages, such as ngsw-config (from @angular/service-worker) and bazelisk (from @bazel/bazelisk). Scoped publishing, registry allowlists and lockfi…
On August 28, 2026, an attacker published 10 malicious versions of the npm package @7nohe/openapi-react-query-codegen (about 671K downloads/month) without stealing any credentials. They abused the repository's GitHub Actions release.yml workflow, which had an issuecomment trigger with no author-association gate. Commenting npm publish on …
ConnectWise disclosed on October 16 that on October 15 it detected unauthorized access to application identities in its Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) environment. It suspended Cloud Backup, plus the integrated SaaS Security and Cloud Management services, as a precaution. As of 16:00 UTC on October 18 the services were still down, so end…
Attackers used compromised application credentials from ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to access Microsoft 365 customer environments. Huntress researcher Jonathan Semon confirmed unauthorized sign-ins across 162 tenants as of 19:00 UTC on October 16. ConnectWise disabled application access, which interrupted backup services, …
ConnectWise shut down its Cloud Backup service (formerly SkyKick Cloud Backup) after an attacker gained unauthorized access to application identities and used them to compromise Microsoft 365 tenants. Huntress identified at least 162 compromised tenants in its environment, and Microsoft Threat Intelligence characterized the incident as an…
