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TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-05-24, (Mon, May 25th)

TeamPCP now operates across three package ecosystems in parallel, it reached GitHub’s own internal codebase, it trojanized an officially Microsoft-published Python SDK, and it appears to have open-sourced its own framework on GitHub. Bottom line up front Three escalations stacked inside a single week. First, GitHub’s CISO Alexis Wales publicly named a malicious Nx Console…

TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-05-24, (Mon, May 25th)

TeamPCP now operates across three package ecosystems in parallel, it reached GitHub’s own internal codebase, it trojanized an officially Microsoft-published Python SDK, and it appears to have open-sourced its own framework on GitHub. Bottom line up front Three escalations stacked inside a single week. First, GitHub’s CISO Alexis Wales publicly named a malicious Nx Console…

Senators seek answers about hackers obtaining sensitive student data from ostensibly anonymous tip line

A bipartisan pair of senators want a company that operates a tip line for anonymously reporting school safety concerns to answer questions about hackers compromising sensitive student information. Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Jim Banks, R-Ind., announced on Monday they’d sent a letter to the firm, Navigate360, about last month’s incident. “We write to express…

Arelion employs NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS protection products

Arelion operates the world’s best-connected IP fiber backbone, providing high-capacity transit services to a variety of the globe’s leading ISPs as well as many large enterprises. They provide an award-winning customer experience to clients in 129 countries worldwide, and their global Internet services connect more than 700 cloud, security, and content providers with low-latency transit.…

Four security principles for agentic AI systems

Agentic AI represents a qualitative shift in how software operates. Traditional software executes deterministic instructions. Generative AI responds to human prompts with output that humans review and use at their discretion. Agentic AI differs from both. Agents connect to software tools and APIs and uses large language models (LLMs) as reasoning engines to plan and…

The Dark Side of Luxury Brands: Fraud and Laundering

Haute couture may be showcased under chandeliers and velvet ropes, but its underground counterpart operates in Telegram channels, crypto wallets, and dark web storefronts.  What looks like a niche problem of fake handbags is, in reality, a sprawling shadow economy where luxury goods function as financial instruments, laundering vehicles, and scam bait. “Unlike the glamorous…

New APT group breached gov and critical infrastructure orgs in 37 countries

A new cyberespionage group that operates out of Asia has compromised 70 government and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries over the past year using a sophisticated toolset that combines phishing, exploitation kits, custom malware, Linux rootkits, web shells, and a variety of other tunneling and proxy tools. Researchers believe the group is expanding its…

What AWS Security learned from responding to recent npm supply chain threat campaigns

AWS incident response operates around the clock to protect our customers, the AWS Cloud, and the AWS global infrastructure. Through that work, we learn from a variety of issues and spot unique trends. Over the past few months, high-profile software supply chain threat campaigns involving third party software repositories have highlighted the importance of protecting…