The fast-glob library—used in thousands of public Node.js projects and in more than thirty systems of the U.S. Department of Defense—has turned out to be the work of a single developer. Online profiles indicate...
Experts at Socket have uncovered a malicious Go package named golang-random-ip-ssh-bruteforce, which masquerades as a tool for brute-forcing SSH credentials but in reality exfiltrates them to its author via Telegram. The module’s logic is...
Researchers have uncovered a new politically tinged campaign targeting the Solana blockchain ecosystem and, apparently, developers of cryptocurrency projects in Russia. Specialists at Safety, a company focused on securing software supply chains, identified a...
The developers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have announced the introduction of a new email domain verification mechanism aimed at curbing attacks that exploit expired domains and reducing the risk of package compromise....
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered 11 malicious Go packages designed to download additional components from remote servers and execute them on both Windows and Linux systems. According to Socket researcher Olivia Brown, during execution the...
Two malicious packages have been discovered in the NPM ecosystem, disguised as libraries for building bots and automated services using the WhatsApp Business API. Identified by researchers at Socket, these modules mimicked popular WhatsApp...
A malicious package discovered in the NPM ecosystem by researchers at Safety turned out to be far more than a simple trojan for cryptocurrency theft—it stood as a striking example of an attack orchestrated...
Amazon was forced to urgently withdraw a compromised version of its AI-powered programming assistant, Q, after a malicious instruction was covertly embedded into the system. This rogue directive prompted the assistant to exploit command-line...
A major incident has rocked the npm ecosystem: the widely-used package eslint-config-prettier suddenly received an update devoid of any corresponding changes on GitHub. Developers quickly grew suspicious—and with good reason. The package’s maintainer later...
Cybersecurity specialists at cside have uncovered a vast and covert cryptocurrency mining campaign that has compromised over 3,500 websites—marking the largest incident of its kind in recent years and signaling the resurgence of tactics...
The hacking collective known as EncryptHub—also tracked as LARVA-208 and Water Gamayun—has launched a new wave of attacks specifically targeting developers within the Web3 ecosystem. Their aim: to infect victims with data-stealing malware capable...
Three malicious scripts have been discovered in the Arch User Repository (AUR)—a community-driven repository for Arch Linux user packages—used to deploy the CHAOS RAT trojan. These scripts, uploaded by a user operating under the...
