IT Security
Hackers Target Popular arrayref Rust Crate in Supply-Chain Attack
Jeff Burt | | arrayref, information stealing, North Korea, Rust programming language, software supply chain attacks, StepSecurity, typosquatting, Wiz ResearchSecurity researchers are sorting through a complex, stealthy, and fast-moving supply-chain attack aimed at pushing information-stealing malware by compromising the account of the maintainer of multiple Rust crates and introducing four more ...
npm v12 Shuts Down a Popular Malware Trick — But the Threat Isn’t Going Away
For years, one of the easiest ways to sneak malware onto a developer's machine has been to hide in plain sight. Install a package from npm, and any lifecycle script bundled with ...
Critical Flaw in isolated-vm Can Lead to Sandbox Escape, RCE Threat
Jeff Burt | | Activepieces, AI security, C/C++, Endor Labs, isolated-vm, JavaScript security, Mastra, n8n, Node.js security, remote code execution, Sandbox, software vulnerability, TOCTOU, V8 Isolate, vm2Developers for years have been using vm2, an open-source Node.js library, to run untrusted JavaScript inside a secure and isolated sandbox environment. It uses Node.js’s built-in modules and JavaScript Proxies and lets ...
GitHub Sharpens CodeQL’s Eye on Actions Workflows and Modern JavaScript
GitHub Actions pipelines have become one of the quieter attack surfaces in software development. They pull in third-party actions, cache dependencies, and pass secrets between jobs, often without anyone reviewing the workflow ...
Cloudsmith Extends Policies and Controls to Secure Application Binaries
Cloudsmith this week revealed it has expanded the policy management and continuous risk detection capabilities it makes available within its software artifact management platform to now include policy templates, cooldown policies, and ...
GitHub Breach Tied to Malicious VS Code Extension Exposes Thousands of Internal Repositories
GitHub says attackers accessed thousands of internal repositories after a company employee’s device was compromised through a malicious Visual Studio Code extension, though the company said it has removed the malicious extension, ...
Cyber Threats to DevOps Platforms Rising Fast, GitProtect Report Finds
Jeff Burt | | Azure DevOps, CI/CD, code repositories, Cybersecurity, DevOps platform downtime, devops security, extortion, GitHub security, GitProtect.io DevOps Threats report, GPUGate, JIRA, Kaspersky Lab, NPM security, Ransomware, Shai-HuludThe number of incidents targeting DevOps platforms grew 21% in 2025, but the amount of downtime jumped almost 95%, the security firm said ...
When AI Goes Really, Really Wrong: How PocketOS Lost All Its Data
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | | AI agent, AI coding agent, AI safety, Anthropic, Anthropic Claude, autonomous agents, backups, Claude, Cloud Security, Cursor, data loss, PocketOS, RailwayYou can't make this crap up. You just wish you could. Jer Crane, founder of the small vertical software company, PocketOS, reported on X that the AI Cursor coding agent and a ...
Sophisticated Supply Chain Attack Targeting Trivy Expands to Checkmarx, LiteLLM
Jeff Burt | | AI (Artificial Intelligence), AI supply chain attacks, Aqua Security Trivy, Checkmarx, Cloud Security, credentials, exposed secrets, GitHub Actions, LiteLLM, microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Sysdig, TeamPCPThe 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 ...
Codenotary Previews AI Platform to Autonomously Detect and Remediate IT Issues
Codenotary is previewing a software-as–a-service (SaaS) platform that enables artificial intelligence (AI) agents it has developed to autonomously detect, prioritize, and fix security, configuration, and performance issues. Company CEO Moshe Bar said ...
N. Korean Famous Chollima Hackers Use Malicious npm Packages to Steal Data
Jeff Burt | | Contagious Interview, Famous Chollima, infostealer, linux, macOS, malicious npm packages, Microsoft Windows, Pastebin, remote access trojan (RAT), Socket, software developers, typosquattingA 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, ...
‘PackageGate’ Vulnerabilities Can Let Attackers Bypass Shai-Hulud Defenses
Jeff Burt | | Aikido Security, Bun, Git dependency, github, Koi Security, microsoft, npm registry, PhantomRaven, PNPM, remote code execution, Shai-Hulud worm, supply chain attack, VLTIn 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 ...
