CrowdStrike reports that the cybercriminal group SLIM SPIDER breached a Brazilian financial institution in late March 2026 to obtain credentials and information tied to digital assets. The group did not attack Pix or the Central Bank directly. It targeted the cloud environments that banks and fintechs use. CrowdStrike also recorded a 171%…
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 19 October 2026 an attacker used a hijacked GitHub account of an OVHcloud contributor to overwrite the download archives of five existing OVHcloud CLI releases (v0.11.0 to v0.15.0) with a build designed to steal secrets from the disk of any machine that ran it (thehackernews.com, bleepingcomputer.com). The files were live for about 94 …
The paid WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math PRO was hit by a supply chain attack. Copies of version 3.0.123 downloaded from the vendor's site or delivered as updates between October 15, 2026 20:02 UTC and October 16, 2026 07:12 UTC contained malware (securityweek.com, thehackernews.com, bleepingcomputer.com). Any site that installed and activ…
The Wiz Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) reports a growing number of intrusions in which an AI agent system ran the entire operation: finding entry points, harvesting credentials, pivoting across platforms and debugging its own scripts in real time. In one investigated case, the agent compromised a large multi-cloud organization (GC…