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 …
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 …
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…
The LiteLLM release 1.107.0 (a widely used open source LLM proxy and AI gateway developed by BerriAI, about 23 million weekly downloads per theregister.com) was trojanized on PyPI on 21 October 2026 and carries a credential stealer (privcollect) plus a remote code execution backdoor. All wheels (Linux, macOS, Windows) drop three extra fil…