A malicious npm package posing as a remote user interface for OpenAI Codex exfiltrated developer authentication tokens, after attackers allegedly published code to npm that was not visible in the project’s public GitHub repository. Researchers at Aikido said the package, called codexui-android, appeared to offer legitimate functionality while collecting authentication tokens and sending them to…
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depthfirst adds pre-install protection against malicious dependencies
depthfirst has introduced Dependency Firewall, a product that reviews every open-source package being downloaded anywhere in a company and blocks the malicious ones before they reach the person or system that requested them. Developers, AI agents, and any employee using Claude, Codex, or other AI tools keep installing exactly as they do today, and nothing…
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27,000-Download Codex UI Tool Secretly Stole OpenAI Refresh Tokens
A malicious Codex UI npm package with 27,000 weekly downloads was caught exfiltrating OpenAI refresh tokens, exposing developers to account takeover risks.
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Name That Toon: Mark of (Cybersecurity) Progress
As part of Dark Reading’s 20th anniversary package, we asked readers for a cybersecurity-related caption that captures their thoughts about the industry’s last two decades.
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Malicious Sicoob NuGet Steals Banking Credentials as npm Packages Target Cloud Secrets
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious NuGet package that masquerades as a C# software development kit for Sicoob, one of Brazil’s largest cooperative financial systems, to siphon client IDs and PFX certificates. According to Socket, versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.4 of “Sicoob.Sdk” contain functionality to exfiltrate sensitive information, including PFX certificates that are used to
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Malicious npm Package Stole Files From Claude AI User Directory via GitHub
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry that comes with information stealing capabilities. According to OX Security, the package, named “mouse5212-super-formatter,” is designed to upload files from “/mnt/user-data,” a dedicated directory used by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) tool to handle uploads and outputs in the background. The
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TrapDoor malware campaign puts developer workstations in CISO spotlight
A malicious package campaign across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io has put developer workstations back under scrutiny, after researchers said it targeted developer workflows and AI coding assistant files. Researchers at Socket said the campaign, which they are tracking as TrapDoor, “spans more than 34 malicious packages and 384+ related versions and artifacts” across the three…
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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…
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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…
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Linux Rootkits, Router 0-Day, AI Intrusions, Scam Kits and 25 New Stories
This week starts small. A token leaks. A bad package slips in. A login trick works. An old tool shows up again. At first, it feels like the usual mess. Then you see the pattern: attackers are not always breaking in. They are using the parts we already trust. That is what makes it worrying.…
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AntV data visualization tool the latest to be hit by ongoing npm supply chain attacks
The world’s largest open-source registry, node package manager (npm), has been hit by another fast-moving malware attack, this time targeting the widely-used AntV enterprise data visualization tool. Unlike last week’s high-profile npm attack on TanStack, which exploited a complex GitHub Actions cache poisoning weakness, the latest incident early on May 19 took the more conventional…
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Leaked Shai-Hulud malware fuels new npm infostealer campaign
The Shai-Hulud malware leaked last week is now used in new attacks on the Node Package Manager (npm) index, as infected packages emerged over the weekend. […]
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Expired domain leads to supply chain attack on node-ipc npm package
A popular npm package called node-ipc has been compromised, with hackers publishing malicious versions that bundle credential stealing malware. The root cause of the compromise was an expired domain name that attackers managed to register in order to hijack a maintainer’s account. The node-ipc package has had malware added to its code in the past.…
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RubyGems Suspends New Signups After Hundreds of Malicious Packages Are Uploaded
RubyGems, the standard package manager for the Ruby programming language, has temporarily paused account sign ups following what has been described as a “major malicious attack.” “We’re dealing with a major malicious attack on Ruby Gems right now,” Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager for software supply chain security at Mend.io, said in a post on…
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13 new critical holes in JavaScript sandbox allow execution of arbitrary code
Thirteen critical vulnerabilities have been found in the vm2 JavaScript sandbox package that could allow an attacker’s code to escape the container and do nasty things to IT environments. As a result, developers using this library in their applications are urged to update the software to the latest version, which is currently 3.11.2. The warnings…
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PyPI Packages Deliver ZiChatBot Malware via Zulip APIs on Windows and Linux
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to stealthily deliver a previously unknown malware family called ZiChatBot on Windows and Linux systems. “While these wheel packages do implement the features described on their PyPI web pages, their true purpose is to covertly deliver malicious files,” Kaspersky
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Backdoored PyTorch Lightning package drops credential stealer
A malicious version of the PyTorch Lightning package published on the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivers a credential-stealing payload targeting browsers, environment files, and cloud services. […]
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Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI CI RCE and Cursor Flaws Enable Code Execution
Google has addressed a maximum severity security flaw in Gemini CLI — the “@google/gemini-cli” npm package and the “google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli” GitHub Actions workflow — that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on host systems. “The vulnerability allowed an unprivileged external attacker to force their own malicious content to load as Gemini configuration,”
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New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic’s Claude Opus large language model (LLM). The package in question is “@validate-sdk/v2,” which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding, and secure random generation. However,…
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PyPI package with 1.1M monthly downloads hacked to push infostealer
An attacker pushed a malicious version of the popular elementary-data package Python Package Index (PyPI) to steal sensitive developer data and cryptocurrency wallets. […]
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Bitwarden CLI npm package compromised to steal developer credentials
The Bitwarden CLI was briefly compromised after attackers uploaded a malicious @bitwarden/cli package to npm containing a credential-stealing payload capable of spreading to other projects. […]
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New npm supply-chain attack self-spreads to steal auth tokens
A new supply chain attack targeting the Node Package Manager (npm) ecosystem is stealing developer credentials and attempting to spread through packages published from compromised accounts. […]
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WordPress plugin suite hacked to push malware to thousands of sites
More than 30 WordPress plugins in the EssentialPlugin package have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them. […]
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Axios Attack Shows Social Complex Engineering Is Industrialized
The attack on the popular NPM package Axios is just one of many targeting maintainers and has shone a light on how threat actors can scale sophisticated social engineering campaigns.
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UNC1069 Social Engineering of Axios Maintainer Led to npm Supply Chain Attack
The maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors tracked as UNC1069. Maintainer Jason Saayman said the attackers tailored their social engineering efforts “specifically to me” by first approaching him under the guise of the founder of…
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Hackers Hijack Axios npm Package to Spread RATs
Threat actors hijacked the popular npm package axios to spread RAT malware after compromising an open‑source maintainer’s account, researchers warn
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Google Attributes Axios npm Supply Chain Attack to North Korean Group UNC1069
Google has formally attributed the supply chain compromise of the popular Axios npm package to a financially motivated North Korean threat activity cluster tracked as UNC1069. “We have attributed the attack to a suspected North Korean threat actor we track as UNC1069,” John Hultquist, chief analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), told The Hacker…
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Axios NPM Package Compromised in Precision Attack
The NPM package for Axios, a popular JavaScript HTTP client library, was briefly compromised this week, possibly by North Korean threat actors.
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Axios npm Attack Deploys Cross-Platform RAT
A brief compromise of the popular Axios npm package shows how quickly a trusted dependency can become a widespread threat. Attackers hijacked a maintainer account and published malicious versions that silently installed a remote access trojan (RAT) during routine package installs, putting developer environments and CI/CD pipelines at risk. “While traditional risks like manual dependency…
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Attackers hijack Axios npm account to spread RAT malware
Threat actors hijacked the npm account of Axios to distribute RAT malware via malicious package updates. Threat actors compromised the npm account of Axios, a widely used library with over 100M weekly downloads, and published malicious versions to spread remote access trojans across Linux, Windows, and macOS. The supply chain attack was identified by multiple…
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Hackers compromise Axios npm package to drop cross-platform malware
Hackers hijacked the npm account of the Axios package, a JavaScript HTTP client with 100M+ weekly downloads, to deliver remote access trojans to Linux, Windows, and macOS systems. […]
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Hackers Poison Axios npm Package with 100 Million Weekly Downloads
Axios npm Package compromised in a supply chain attack, exposing developers to malware, data theft, and full system takeover risks worldwide.
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Backdoored Telnyx PyPI package pushes malware hidden in WAV audio
TeamPCP hackers compromised the Telnyx package on the Python Package Index today, uploading malicious versions that deliver credential-stealing malware hidden inside a WAV file. […]
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TeamPCP Expands Supply Chain Campaign With LiteLLM PyPI Compromise
Python package LiteLLM compromised with credential-stealing malware linked to TeamPCP threat group
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ENISA Technical Advisory on Secure Package Managers: Essential DevSecOps Guidance
ENISA’s first Technical Advisory on Secure Package Managers helps developers safely use third-party packages. ENISA has released its first Technical Advisory on Package Managers, focusing on how developers can safely consume third-party packages. The document (March 2026, v1.1) follows public feedback incorporating 15 contributions from stakeholders, experts, and the open-source community. “This document focuses on…
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Fake OpenClaw npm Package Installs GhostClaw Malware
A malicious npm package is targeting developers by posing as a legitimate command-line tool while secretly deploying an infostealer and a remote access trojan (RAT). The package, @openclaw-ai/openclawai, masquerades as an OpenClaw Installer utility but instead initiates a multi-stage malware operation. Once executed, it attempts to steal credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, SSH keys, browser data, and…
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Devs looking for OpenClaw get served a GhostClaw RAT
A malicious npm package posing as an OpenClaw Installer has been caught deploying a remote access trojan (RAT) on victim machines, according to new JFrog research. The package, published under the name “@openclaw-ai/openclawai”, pretends to be an installer for the legitimate CLI tool but instead launches a multi-stage infection chain that steals system credentials, browser…
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Malicious npm Package Posing as OpenClaw Installer Deploys RAT, Steals macOS Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that masquerades as an OpenClaw installer to deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) and steal sensitive data from compromised hosts. The package, named “@openclaw-ai/openclawai,” was uploaded to the registry by a user named “openclaw-ai” on March 3, 2026. It has been downloaded 178 times to date. The…
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Congress looks to revive critical cyber program for rural electric utilities
The House Energy and Commerce committee unanimously passed a package of bipartisan cybersecurity bills Thursday targeting the energy sector, including legislation that would reauthorize and fund a critical federal cybersecurity assistance program for rural electric utilities across the country. The Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity Act, introduced by Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, and Jennifer McClellan,…
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New Malicious npm Package Highlights the Speed at Which Supply Chain Risks Propagate
GUEST RESEARCH: Tenable Research investigated a malicious package in the npm public registry named “amber-src” that underscores the rapid nature of modern supply chain attacks. The package, which was downloaded approximately 50,000 times before its removal, was designed to mimic a popular package “ember-source”, to infect developers’ systems across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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Malicious StripeApi NuGet Package Mimicked Official Library and Stole API Tokens
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malicious package discovered on the NuGet Gallery, impersonating a library from financial services firm Stripe in an attempt to target the financial sector. The package, codenamed StripeApi.Net, attempts to masquerade as Stripe.net, a legitimate library from Stripe that has over 75 million downloads. It was uploaded by…
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Malicious NuGet Package Targets Stripe Developers
Malicious NuGet package mimicking Stripe’s library targeted developers
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Supply Chain Attack Secretly Installs OpenClaw for Cline Users
The malicious version of Cline’s npm package — 2.3.0 — was downloaded more than 4,000 times before it was removed.
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Lazarus Campaign Plants Malicious Packages in npm and PyPI Ecosystems
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh set of malicious packages across npm and the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository linked to a fake recruitment-themed campaign orchestrated by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group. The coordinated campaign has been codenamed graphalgo in reference to the first package published in the npm registry. It’s assessed to be active…
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Mobile security matters: Protecting your phone from text scams
It all starts so innocently. You get a text saying “Your package couldn’t be delivered. Click here to reschedule.” Little do you know, clicking that link could open the door for scammers to steal your identity, empty your bank account, or even plant malicious software (malware) on your device. Unless you know what to look out…
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Mobile security matters: Protecting your phone from text scams
It all starts so innocently. You get a text saying “Your package couldn’t be delivered. Click here to reschedule.” Little do you know, clicking that link could open the door for scammers to steal your identity, empty your bank account, or even plant malicious software (malware) on your device. Unless you know what to look out…
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Mobile security matters: Protecting your phone from text scams
It all starts so innocently. You get a text saying “Your package couldn’t be delivered. Click here to reschedule.” Little do you know, clicking that link could open the door for scammers to steal your identity, empty your bank account, or even plant malicious software (malware) on your device. Unless you know what to look out…
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Mobile security matters: Protecting your phone from text scams
It all starts so innocently. You get a text saying “Your package couldn’t be delivered. Click here to reschedule.” Little do you know, clicking that link could open the door for scammers to steal your identity, empty your bank account, or even plant malicious software (malware) on your device. Unless you know what to look out…
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Mobile security matters: Protecting your phone from text scams
It all starts so innocently. You get a text saying “Your package couldn’t be delivered. Click here to reschedule.” Little do you know, clicking that link could open the door for scammers to steal your identity, empty your bank account, or even plant malicious software (malware) on your device. Unless you know what to look out…
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Mobile security matters: Protecting your phone from text scams
It all starts so innocently. You get a text saying “Your package couldn’t be delivered. Click here to reschedule.” Little do you know, clicking that link could open the door for scammers to steal your identity, empty your bank account, or even plant malicious software (malware) on your device. Unless you know what to look out…
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Mobile security matters: Protecting your phone from text scams
It all starts so innocently. You get a text saying “Your package couldn’t be delivered. Click here to reschedule.” Little do you know, clicking that link could open the door for scammers to steal your identity, empty your bank account, or even plant malicious software (malware) on your device. Unless you know what to look out…