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 …
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 …
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) was trojanized on PyPI on 21 October 2026 and carries a credential stealer plus a remote code execution backdoor. All seven wheels (Linux, macOS, Windows) drop three extra files in site-packages, two of which run whenever any Python process starts, even one that never impor…