On September 8, 2026, an attacker added a malicious source dependency to Deep-Live-Cam, a Python face-swapping app with about 96,600 GitHub stars. Commit 7895c547 ("chore: update requirements.txt") rewrote 18 dependency entries and added requests @ git+https://github.com/pypls/requests.git. This points installation to a lookalike reposito…
The Mini Shai-Hulud worm from May 2026 is still infecting new GitHub repositories. SafeDep found six repositories that received malicious hook files between 20 and 24 September 2026. The cause is that all tags of the actions-cool/issues-helper GitHub Action, hijacked on 18 May 2026, still point to the malicious commit, and the payload is …
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 reports that the npm package imgdecode (versions 1.0.0-1.0.3, publisher malfexteste8) is part of the MALFEX campaign, which targets Windows developers. After npm removed earlier JavaScript loaders, the operator moved the loader logic into a compiled Node.js native addon (a Windows DLL). On require('imgdecode') from an interactive …
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 …
Eight intermediate CA certificates of the Indian certificate authority eMudhra (emSign brand), generated on 30 April 2025, were found to have P-384 private keys so weak (integers below 256) that anyone can recover them from the public certificates and forge browser-trusted certificates for any domain. A researcher credited as Wayne report…