On August 20, 2026, a compromised release of the Rust crate arrayref (0.3.10, about 245 million all-time downloads) appeared on crates.io. It added a dependency on the typosquatted crate proc-macro1 1.0.107, whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile time. The maintainer account droundy appears to have been compromis…
SafeDep identified a malicious tensorlake npm release, version 0.5.144 (about 106,000 monthly downloads), that ran a Mini Shai-Hulud worm on install. It was published at 01:12:07 UTC on 8 October and flagged by SafeDep eight minutes later. The attacker used a repository administrator account to commit the payload to main through the GitHu…
On September 23, 2026, an attacker published malicious versions of @memtensor/memos-cloud-openclaw-plugin (npm, versions 0.1.21, 0.1.23 and 0.1.25 per the article) and the MemoryOS Python library (PyPI, 2.0.34). Both carry the same Go implant, sckit, which harvests credentials from the home directory, exfiltrates them to servers under sky…
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…
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 …