Attackers Can Exploit a Claude Code RCE Flaw to Take Command of System
A dangerous vulnerability found in Anthropic’s popular Claude Code developer model could have allowed bad actors to grab control of a victim’s system by luring them into clicking on a crafted malicious deeplink. Once in, the attacker could exploit the remote code execution (RCE) security flaw to execute arbitrary commands – such as shell commands […]
Widespread Mini Shai-Hulud Campaign Is a Matter of Trust
The latest series of attacks using the notorious Shai-Hulud worm puts into sharp focus the threats facing software developers and their CI/CD pipelines, an issue that has been raised in recent months as bad actors increasingly turn their attention to DevOps environments. That said, these most recent Shai-Hulud incidents attributed to the TeamPCP group also […]
Cyber Threats to DevOps Platforms Rising Fast, GitProtect Report Finds
The number of incidents targeting DevOps platforms grew 21% in 2025, but the amount of downtime jumped almost 95%, the security firm said.
Critical Microsoft GitHub Flaw Highlights Dangers to CI/CD Pipelines: Tenable
A critical vulnerability in a popular Microsoft GitHub repository could allow a threat actor to easily exploit its CI/CD infrastructure to run arbitrary code in the repository and gain access to secrets, according to researchers with cybersecurity firm Tenable. In an advisory issued April 21, Rémy Marot, staff research engineer at Tenable, wrote that “by […]
LayerX: Anthropic’s Claude Code Can Easily Be Easily Weaponized
LayerX researchers were able to convince the popular AI coding tool to bypass its guardrails and execute malicious instructions.
Bad Actor Drops 36 Malicious Packages in npm, Targets Guardarian Users
The npm code repository is again being used by a bad actor to launch a supply chain attack that includes three dozen malicious packages that appear as Strapi CMS plugins but deliver a range of threats. Strapi is a popular open source headless Node.js content management system developers use to build, manage, and expose content […]
North Korean Hackers Suspected in Supply Chain Attack on Popular Axios Project
The threat actor targeted a highly popular open source project with more than 100 million weekly downloads, creating a large “blast radius.”
Sophisticated Supply Chain Attack Targeting Trivy Expands to Checkmarx, LiteLLM
The supply chain attack that compromised Aqua Security’s Trivy open source security vulnerability scanner and its associated GitHub Actions earlier this month continues to expand, with software development tools from Checkmarx and LiteLLM being the latest victims of the sophisticated campaign. The threat group behind it, TeamPCP, is using the attacks to create persistence and […]
Two Malicious npm Packages Aim to Steal Credentials and Other Secrets
Bad actors took over a npm maintainer account and have published two malicious packages designed to steal credentials, API keys, and other secrets from the computers of victims who download them from the repository. Analysts with Sonatype’s Security Research Team wrote in a report that the two packages – sbx-mask and touch-adv – likely are […]
N. Korean Famous Chollima Hackers Use Malicious npm Packages to Steal Data
A group of more than two dozen malicious npm packages used to steal secrets and credentials from software developers has all the hallmarks – from infrastructure to operations – of Famous Chollima, the North Korean nation-state actor linked to the ongoing high-profile Contagious Interview scam. Threat researchers with Socket and Kieran Miyamoto of the DPRK […]
Security Flaws in Anthropic’s Claude Code Risk Stolen Data, System Takeover
Three critical vulnerabilities found in Anthropic’s Claude Code agentic AI developer tool could be exploited simply by cloning and opening an untrusted project and lead to system takeover, stolen API keys, and credential theft, according to security researchers with Check Point. The security flaws, which Anthropic fixed last year and last month after the researchers […]
‘PackageGate’ Vulnerabilities Can Let Attackers Bypass Shai-Hulud Defenses
In the wake of the massive Shai-Hulud supply chain attack that ripped through npm late last year and compromised more than 700 packages and exposed 25,000 repositories, developers in the JavaScript world embraced a two-part defense strategy. The widely adopted playbook called for disabling lifecycle scripts and using lockfiles. “It became the standard advice everywhere […]
N. Korea Contagious Interview Campaign Turns to VS Code to Deliver Backdoor
Jamf security researchers said state-sponsored espionage actors are using malicious VS Code projects to steal information.
Attackers Testing New Strain of Shai-Hulud on npm: Aikido
Threat actors behind the virulent Shai-Hulud worm that wreaked havoc in open npm repositories toward the end of 2025 apparently are trying out a new strain that comes with slight modifications. Security researchers with Aikido Security, who have been tracking Shai-Hulud for months, wrote in a report that was updated January 2 that there doesn’t […]
Best of 2025: GitHub Action Compromise Risks Data Leaks for 23,000 Repositories
The attacker introduced malicious Python code that would expose secrets like authentication credentials in public repositories.
Best of 2025: AI-Generated Code Packages Can Lead to ‘Slopsquatting’ Threat
AI hallucinations – the occasional tendency of large language models to respond to prompts with incorrect, inaccurate or made-up answers – have been an ongoing concern as the enterprise adoption of generative AI has accelerated over the past two years. They’re also an issue for developers using AI-based tools when building code, including generating names of packages […]
Malicious VS Code Extensions Take Screenshots, Steal Info
Developers were the targets of two new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions created by a threat actor that security researchers believe is experimenting with methods for delivering information-stealing malware to the victims’ systems. The malicious extensions come posing as a harmless “premium dark theme” and an AI-powered coding assistant, but both – […]
Crates.io Removes Malicious Rust Package Targeting Web3 Developers
A malicious Rust package that was found to be downloading payloads aimed at stealing cryptocurrency was removed from the crates.io Rust package registry, along with another package by the same author that appeared benign but was dependent on the first. The crates.io team removed both packages this week after security researchers with Socket alerted it […]
Massive VS Code Secrets Leak Puts Focus on Extensions, AI: Wiz
Researchers with cybersecurity firm Wiz earlier this year discovered, almost by chance, a significant supply chain risk and massive secrets leak in the Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX marketplaces that they said put a focus on the ongoing security issues presented by extensions and plugins. In their months-long investigation with Microsoft, the researchers found that […]
WhiteCobra Targets Developers with Dozens of Malicious Extensions
A threat group is dropping two dozen malicious extensions into the VSCode and Open VSX marketplaces, targeting developers using the VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf source code editing tools with the goal of draining cryptocurrency wallets. Researchers with security firm Koi Security have been tracking WhiteCobra’s activities for more than a year as the bad actors […]
Malicious Nx Packages Used in Two Waves of Supply Chain Attack
The Nx build system was hit by a supply chain attack dubbed “s1ngularity,” leaking thousands of secrets and exploiting AI tools for data theft.
AI-Generated Code Packages Can Lead to ‘Slopsquatting’ Threat
AI hallucinations – the occasional tendency of large language models to respond to prompts with incorrect, inaccurate or made-up answers – have been an ongoing concern as the enterprise adoption of generative AI has accelerated over the past two years. They’re also an issue for developers using AI-based tools when building code, including generating names of packages […]
GitHub Brings Together Security, Developers to Fix Code Flaws
GitHub is linking developers with security pros to reduce the number of vulnerabilities that may be hiding in code that already is in workflows. The highly popular Microsoft-owned code repository this week said its security campaigns, which were released in public preview in October 2024, are now generally available to GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub […]