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Your attack surface no longer lives on one operating system, and neither do the campaigns targeting it. In enterprise environments, attackers move across Windows endpoints, executive MacBooks, Linux infrastructure, and mobile devices, taking advantage of the fact that many SOC workflows are still fragmented by platform.  For security leaders, this creates a costly operational gap : slower validation, limited early-stage visibility, more escalations, and more time for attackers to steal credentials, establish persistence, or move deeper before the response fully begins. The Multi-OS Attack Problem SOCs Aren’t Ready For A multi-OS attack can turn one threat into several different investigations at once. The campaign may follow a different path depending on the system it reaches, which breaks the speed and consistency SOC teams rely on during early triage. Instead of moving through one clear validation pro...

This week had real hits. The key software got tampered with. Active bugs showed up in the tools people use every day. Some attacks didn’t even need much effort because the path was already there. One weak spot now spreads wider than before. What starts small can reach a lot of systems fast. New bugs, faster use, less time to react. That’s this week. Read through it. ⚡ Threat of the Week Axios npm Package Compromised by N. Korean Hackers —Threat actors with ties to North Korea seized control of the npm account belonging to the lead maintainer of Axios, a popular npm package with nearly 100 million weekly downloads, to push malicious versions containing a cross-platform malware dubbed WAVESHAPER.V2. The activity has been attributed to a financially motivated threat actor known as UNC1069. The incident demonstrates how quickly the compromise of a popular npm package can have ripple effects through the ecosystem. T...

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identities of two of the key figures associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi ) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. One of the threat actors, who went by the alias UNKN , functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS cybercrime forum. He has now been identified as Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin , a 31-year-old Russian national. He also went by the online monikers Oneiilk2, Oneillk2, Oneillk22, and GandCrab. The development was reported by independent security journalist Brian Krebs. "From early 2019 at the latest until at least July 2021, the wanted person, in cooperation with other individuals, acted as the leader of one of the largest global ransomware groups, known as GandCrab/REvil," BKA said. "The perpetrators demanded large ransom payments in exchange for decrypting and not leaki...

Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the fall of 2025. The Solana-based decentralized exchange described it as "an attack six months in the making," attributing it with medium confidence to a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group dubbed UNC4736 , which is also tracked under the cyptonyms AppleJeus, Citrine Sleet, Golden Chollima, and Gleaming Pisces. The threat actor has a history of targeting the cryptocurrency sector for financial theft since at least 2018. It's best known for the X_TRADER/3CX supply chain breach in 2023 and the $53 million hack of decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Radiant Capital in October 2024. "The basis for this connection is both on-chain (f...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent implant. "Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository, or homepage, and uses version 3.6.8 to appear as a mature Strapi v3 community plugin," SafeDep said . All identified npm packages follow the same naming convention, starting with "strapi-plugin-" and then phrases like "cron," "database," or "server" to fool unsuspecting developers into downloading them. It's worth noting that the official Strapi plugins are scoped under "@strapi/." The packages, uploaded by four sock puppet accounts "umarbek1233," "kekylf12," "tikeqemif26," and "umar_bektembiev1...