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Microsoft links Mastra AI supply chain attack to North Korean hackers
Microsoft has attributed a recent Mastra AI supply chain attack that compromised more than 140 npm packages to the North Korean hacking group Sapphire Sleet, also known as BlueNoroff. This attribution comes after Microsoft first disclosed earlier this week that attackers hijacked an npm maintainer account and used it to publish malicious package updates. “Microsoft […]
GitHub announces npm security changes to tackle supply-chain attacks
GitHub has announced that npm v12, expected next month, will introduce several security-focused changes aimed at blocking supply-chain attacks abusing behaviors triggered by the ‘npm install’ command. ‘npm install’ is the command used to download and install a project’s dependencies and run any install-related scripts defined by the packages. Developers execute it after cloning a […]
New IronWorm malware hits 36 packages in npm supply-chain attack
A new supply-chain attack has infected 36 packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) index with infostealer malware called IronWorm. The malware targets 86 environment variables (key-value pairs) and 20 credential files that may contain OpenAI, AWS, Anthropic, and npm credentials, vault configuration files, SSH keys, and Exodus cryptocurrency wallet files. According to researchers at […]
Red Hat npm packages compromised to steal developer credentials
More than 30 npm packages under Red Hat’s ‘@redhat-cloud-services’ namespace were compromised in a supply-chain attack that distributed a new variant of the Shai-Hulud credential-stealing malware, dubbed “Miasma.” The incident was discovered by security firms Aikido and OX Security, which found dozens of package versions backdoored with malware designed to steal developer credentials, cloud secrets, SSH keys, CI/CD tokens, […]
GitHub links repo breach to TanStack npm supply-chain attack
GitHub says the hackers who breached 3,800 internal repositories gained access via a malicious version of the Nx Console VS Code extension, compromised in last week’s TanStack npm supply-chain attack. This attack is attributed to the TeamPCP threat group and began with the compromise of dozens of TanStack and Mistral AI npm packages, then quickly extended to other […]
New Shai-Hulud malware wave compromises 600 npm packages
Threat actors earlier today published more than 600 malicious packages to the Node Package Manager (npm) index as part of a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign. Most of the affected packages are in the @antv ecosystem, which includes libraries for charting, graph visualization, building flowcharts, and mapping. However, popular packages outside this namespace have also been […]
Leaked Shai-Hulud malware fuels new npm infostealer campaign
The Shai-Hulud malware leaked last week is now used in new attacks on the Node Package Manager (npm) index, as infected packages emerged over the weekend. A threat actor using the account deadcode09284814 published four malicious packages on npm and embedded one of them with a non-obfuscated version of Shai-Hulud that targeted developer credentials, secrets, cryptocurrency wallet data, and […]
Popular node-ipc npm package compromised to steal credentials
Hackers have injected credential-stealing malware into newly published versions of node-ipc, a popular inter-process communication package, in a new supply chain attack targeting npm. The node-ipc package is a Node.js module that enables various processes to communicate through all forms of sockets, including Unix, Windows, UDP, TLS, and TCP. Despite the maintainer publishing in March […]
TeamPCP hackers advertise Mistral AI code repos for sale
The TeamPCP hacker group is threatening to leak source code from the Mistral AI project unless a buyer is found for the data. In a post on a hacker forum, the threat actor is asking $25,000 for a set of nearly 450 repositories. Mistral AI is a French artificial intelligence company founded by former researchers […]
OpenAI confirms security breach in TanStack supply chain attack
OpenAI says two employees’ devices were breached in the recent TanStack supply chain attack that impacted hundreds of npm and PyPI packages, causing the company to rotate code-signing certificates for its applications as a precaution. In a security advisory published today, the company said the incident did not impact customer data, production systems, intellectual property, […]