Supply-Chain
TrapDoor: Cross-Ecosystem Supply Chain Attack Plants Credential Stealers and AI-Assistant Backdoors
A coordinated campaign across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io seeded 34+ malicious packages that steal developer secrets and plant hidden instructions to weaponize AI coding assistants.
Megalodon: 5,561 GitHub Repos Backdoored With Malicious CI/CD Workflows in Six Hours
An automated campaign tied to TeamPCP pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repositories in a six-hour window, planting CI/CD workflows that exfiltrate cloud credentials and OIDC tokens at scale.
Laravel-Lang Supply Chain Attack: 233 Package Versions Backdoored to Steal Cloud and CI/CD Secrets
Attackers repointed git tags across four Laravel-Lang Composer packages to a malicious fork, backdooring 233 versions with a credential stealer that drains cloud, CI/CD, and developer secrets.
actions-cool/issues-helper Compromised: Every Tag Repointed to a Credential-Stealing Imposter Commit
An attacker repointed all 53 tags of the popular actions-cool/issues-helper GitHub Action to a single imposter commit that scrapes live CI/CD secrets out of runner process memory.
Nx Console VS Code Extension Compromised: Orphan-Commit Stealer Hits a 2.2M-Install Developer Tool
A compromised Nx Console 18.95.0 extension pulled a 498 KB stealer from an orphan commit in the official nrwl/nx repo, harvesting GitHub, npm, AWS and Vault secrets — and shipped tooling to forge signed npm provenance.
Grafana Refuses Ransom After CoinbaseCartel Pwn Request Attack Steals Source Code From Five Repos
Grafana Labs disclosed that CoinbaseCartel exploited a GitHub Actions pull_request_target misconfiguration to steal privileged CI tokens and pivot into five private repos. A canary token tripped the breach; the company refused the ransom demand.
RubyGems Disables New Signups After Hundreds of Malicious Packages Target Registry Staff
RubyGems froze new account registration after an attacker uploaded hundreds of malicious gems on May 11-12 specifically targeting RubyGems engineers, with XSS payloads and credential-stealing exploits embedded in the packages.
Mini Shai-Hulud Wave 4: TanStack, Mistral AI, UiPath Hit by First-Ever SLSA-Attested Malicious npm Packages (CVE-2026-45321)
TeamPCP's fourth Mini Shai-Hulud wave compromised 42 TanStack packages, the Mistral AI SDK, UiPath, OpenSearch, and Guardrails AI by stealing OIDC tokens out of a GitHub Actions runner's process memory — and shipped malicious versions with valid SLSA Build Level 3 provenance attestations.
Worms All the Way Down: Why npm and PyPI Will Keep Spawning Self-Propagating Compromises Until We Re-Architect Install-Time Trust
From the original Shai-Hulud in September 2025 through CanisterSprawl, the Bitwarden CLI compromise, and Mini Shai-Hulud, every major npm/PyPI worm of the last eight months has used the same primitive: package lifecycle hooks that run arbitrary code on install. Until the registries change that default, each generation will keep landing.
QLNX: A Stealthy Linux RAT Built To Rob Developer Workstations And Seed The Next Supply Chain Attack
Trend Micro disclosed QLNX, a previously undocumented Linux RAT engineered to harvest developer and CI credentials so operators can trojanize npm, PyPI, Docker Hub, and Kubernetes pipelines downstream.
DAEMON Tools Supply Chain Compromise: Signed Installers Backdoored Since April 8, Chinese Actor Suspected
Trojanized DAEMON Tools Lite installers signed with the legitimate vendor certificate distributed a multi-protocol backdoor for nearly a month. Kaspersky telemetry shows infection attempts in 100+ countries, with a second-stage implant on government and scientific targets in Russia, Belarus, and Thailand.
Trellix Confirms Source Code Repository Breach as XDR Vendor Becomes the Target
Trellix has confirmed unauthorized access to a portion of its internal source code repository, putting one of the industry's largest XDR vendors in the unenviable position of being the breached defender.
SimpleHelp Trio Hits CISA KEV as DragonForce Ransomware Tears Through MSP Fleets
CISA dragged three SimpleHelp RMM bugs into the KEV catalog with a May 8 federal deadline after DragonForce operators chained them to push ransomware across MSP customer fleets in a single shot.
Mini Shai-Hulud: SAP, Intercom, and PyTorch Lightning Hit by Bun-Based Stealer in 48-Hour TeamPCP Cascade
TeamPCP's Mini Shai-Hulud campaign poisoned SAP CAP, Intercom, and PyTorch Lightning packages on April 29-30 with a Bun-runtime credential stealer that scrapes secrets directly from CI runner memory.
Itron Discloses Internal Network Breach: Smart Meter and Grid Software Vendor Reports Unauthorized System Access
Itron, a major U.S. supplier of smart metering and grid management software for electricity, water, and gas utilities, disclosed in an SEC 8-K filing that an unauthorized third party gained access to its internal IT network on April 13, 2026.
@bitwarden/cli 2026.4.0 Backdoored in 93-Minute npm Window — 'Shai-Hulud: The Third Coming' Worm Hijacks Developer Credentials
A trojanized @bitwarden/[email protected] sat live on npm for 93 minutes on April 22, exfiltrating GitHub/npm tokens, SSH keys, cloud creds, and crypto wallet keys — and self-propagating through victims' own npm packages. The pivot came from the ongoing Checkmarx/TeamPCP campaign.
CanisterSprawl: Self-Propagating npm Worm Hits pgserve, Spreads to PyPI, Exfils to ICP Canister
Malicious pgserve, automagik, xinference, and kube-health releases drop a 1,143-line postinstall stealer that re-publishes itself using stolen npm tokens and exfiltrates to a decentralized ICP canister.
Vercel Breach: Context.ai OAuth Pivot Exposes Customer Environment Variables
A Lumma Stealer infection at Context.ai gave attackers an OAuth path into a Vercel employee's Google Workspace, then into customer environment variables. ShinyHunters is now selling the data for $2M.
Ransomware Hits ChipSoft, the EHR Vendor Behind 80% of Dutch Hospitals
A ransomware attack on Dutch EHR vendor ChipSoft has disrupted hospital systems nationwide and may have exposed millions of patient records.
Composer Command Injection (CVE-2026-40261, CVE-2026-40176): Any Malicious Repository Can Execute Code on Your Build Machines
Two high-severity command injection flaws in PHP's Composer package manager allow arbitrary command execution via malicious repository metadata — no Perforce installation required for the worst one.