Symantec's Threat Hunter Team reports that new versions of the Aoki infostealer now target credential and session files used by AI coding assistants. Earlier versions focused on browser, cryptocurrency wallet and password manager data. Aoki is a relatively new and sparsely documented stealer, first observed earlier in 2026, and its AI-rel…
On August 12, 2026, an npm user (rootdaddy-msrc, author field r00tdaddy) published 21 packages that squatted the unscoped CLI binary names declared in the bin field of Google-affiliated scoped packages, such as ngsw-config (from @angular/service-worker) and bazelisk (from @bazel/bazelisk). Scoped publishing, registry allowlists and lockfi…
Campaigns that impersonate popular AI brands, notably Claude and ChatGPT, are on the rise. They typically use ClickFix-like social engineering tactics to target unsuspecting enterprise employees, with developers described as being at particular risk. The article, available only as a short excerpt, gives no details on payloads, infrastruct…
TrendAI™ (Trend Micro) published its H1 2026 APT Activity Roundup on July 29, 2026. It finds nation-state actors used AI in more stages of the intrusion lifecycle than in any prior half-year the company has tracked. China-aligned actors used generative AI to refine exploits and iteratively build malware through "vibe coding", and one AI a…