Supply-Chain
Pickle in the Middle: Vertex AI SDK Bucket-Squatting Bug Enabled Cross-Tenant RCE
Unit 42's 'Pickle in the Middle' shows how a predictable staging-bucket name in the Vertex AI Python SDK let an attacker hijack model uploads and run code cross-tenant. Patched in google-cloud-aiplatform 1.148.0.
Mastra npm Scope Hijacked: 144 AI-Framework Packages Backdoored with the easy-day-js Stealer
An attacker hijacked a former contributor's npm account to republish ~144 @mastra packages — including @mastra/core (918K weekly downloads) — each pulling in easy-day-js, a dayjs typosquat that drops a cross-platform crypto/infostealer at install time.
eBPF Cuts Both Ways: The Kernel Rootkit Is Now Standard Issue in 2026's Supply-Chain Malware
In two weeks, IronWorm and the atomic-lockfile AUR compromise both shipped an eBPF kernel rootkit as just another payload module. The observability primitive your stack is built on is now the malware's stealth layer — and most detection assumptions are structurally defeated.
Proto6: Six protobuf.js Flaws Turn Trusted Schemas Into RCE and DoS Across gRPC, Cloud, and AI Stacks
Cyera's Proto6 research discloses six CVEs in protobuf.js, including a prototype-pollution-to-RCE chain, in a library pulled 50M+ times a week across gRPC, Google Cloud SDKs, vector databases, and CI/CD.
400+ AUR Packages Compromised: atomic-lockfile npm Payload Drops Credential Stealer With eBPF Rootkit
Over 400 Arch User Repository packages were modified to pull a malicious npm package that deploys a developer-focused credential stealer with optional root-only eBPF rootkit capabilities.
An AI Agent Found 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg for $1,000 — and Your Container Images Are in Scope
depthfirst's autonomous agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for about $1,000, including a 23-year-old stack overflow. Nine carry CVEs (CVE-2026-39210 through CVE-2026-39218). FFmpeg is bundled everywhere — patch upstream and your embedded copies.
Claude Code's GitHub Action: One Malicious Issue Could Hijack Any Public Repo
A permission bypass chained with prompt injection in Anthropic's Claude Code GitHub Action let a single crafted issue make the agent leak CI secrets and OIDC request tokens — a clean path to poisoning the action's own supply chain. Patched in v1.0.94.
IronWorm: A Rust-Built npm Worm With an eBPF Rootkit and Tor C2
JFrog dissected IronWorm, a self-replicating npm supply-chain worm written in Rust that hides behind an eBPF kernel rootkit, beacons over Tor, and steals 86 env vars and 20+ credential files. 36 packages hit before it was caught.
Red Hat Cloud Services npm Packages Hijacked in 'Miasma' Shai-Hulud Worm
A Mini Shai-Hulud wave dubbed 'Miasma' poisoned ~30 @redhat-cloud-services npm packages on June 1 via a compromised CI/CD pipeline, dropping a Bun-based credential stealer with a destructive dead-man switch.
codexui-android: npm Package Silently Exfiltrated OpenAI Codex Auth Tokens for a Month
A 29K-weekly-download npm package advertised as a remote web UI for OpenAI Codex has been quietly exfiltrating ~/.codex/auth.json — including non-expiring refresh tokens — to a fake Sentry endpoint since v0.1.82.
Malicious NuGet Package Impersonates Sicoob Banking SDK, Exfiltrates mTLS Certificates Through Sentry
A trojanized NuGet package posing as the official Sicoob C# SDK reads PFX certificates off disk and ships them, plus the password, to an attacker-controlled Sentry endpoint — abusing a trusted telemetry service as its exfiltration channel.
JINX-0164: Fake Recruiters, a macOS RAT, and a Pivot Into Code Distribution Pipelines
Wiz details JINX-0164, a financially motivated actor that uses LinkedIn recruiter lures to drop the AUDIOFIX macOS RAT, then moves from developer laptops into code distribution and CI/CD infrastructure.
Gitea CVE-2026-27771: Container Registry Hands Out Private Images Without Authentication, 30,000 Instances Exposed
A four-year-old flaw in Gitea's OCI container registry lets anyone on the internet pull images marked private. 30,000+ deployments are exposed, Forgejo inherits the bug, and the only real fix is upgrading to 1.26.2 or forcing sign-in for all content.
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.