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Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk. The exposed information includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and order numbers between November 2019 and August 2021. The breach does not affect the security of the company's hardware wallets. "Throughout our entire relationship with ShipMonk, we repeatedly requested and received written assurance confirming the deletion of the data, in line with our contract, data policy, and past communications," Trezor said . "We are very disappointed that, despite receiving this confirmation, the data was not deleted in their systems." The exposure is in addition to 13,689 customers the company disclosed last month as having had their data either fully or partially exposed. The breach, it noted at the time, was limited during its 90-day data storage policy. Trezo...

Thomson Reuters disclosed on Wednesday that an unauthorized party obtained files from C-Track , the court case management platform sold by its West Publishing Corporation unit, in March 2026, affecting courts in 11 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Ontario, Canada. West Publishing said it discovered the activity on June 30, 2026. A subset of court records could contain individuals' names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, dates of birth, medical information, and health insurance information, the company said. The firm is offering potentially affected individuals 12 months of Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring, with enrollment open until December 31, 2026, using a multi-use code published in the notice, and a hotline at 1-833-918-5294 that requires the engagement number B171847. In Canada, Thomson Reuters Canada Limited is offering 12 months of TransUnion myTrueIdentity monitoring with a call center scheduled to open on September 4. "...

In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environments , Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling, cloud configurations, and even AI tool configs. Earlier variants of the infostealer worm only checked 189 paths. The jump says a lot. Attackers have stopped trying to break trust relationships and started using the credentials that already make those relationships work. Software supply chains have always depended on trust.  Developers trust package registries. Organizations trust maintainers. CI/CD systems trust the credentials and identities they're given. Applications trust the dependencies they pull down during a build.  Attackers realized they don't need to break any of that. They just needed to find where the credentials and standing privileges already sit. This is what is driving the current focus on software supply ...

Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some installations. A hosting-provider account separately said 5 of its 34 checked Virtualizor hypervisors sustained root-level compromise. The incident window ran from approximately August 28 at 20:57 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to August 30 at 06:10 UTC. Virtualizor said every operator should check its servers because the company has no affected-version range or definitive list of installations that received the package. Virtualizor released Patch 9 with a Security Analyzer on September 1, but the vendor said cryptographic package signing remained future work. Operators should run the official scanner, rotate and restrict application programming interface (API) credentials, and audit each server for persistence and unauthorized access. "This affected a handful of servers rat...

Threat actors are exploiting a newly patched critical security flaw impacting JFrog Artifactory merely days after public disclosure, according to watchTowr . The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-82329 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of authentication bypass that could lead to administrative access in Artifactory. "JFrog Artifactory contains an authentication weakness that, under default configuration, may allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to obtain administrative privileges," according to a description of the flaw on CVE.org. The vulnerability was patched by JFrog with Artifactory version 7.161.20 released on August 28, 2026. It affects the following versions - 7.161.0 > 7.161.19 7.146.0 > 7.146.36 7.133.0 > 7.133.28 7.125.0 > 7.125.19 7.117.0 > 7.117.27 7.111.4 > 7.111.21 "It affects default configs, requires no auth, no user interaction," Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch said in a post on LinkedIn. ...

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a set of 13 malicious Composer theme packages on Packagist that are designed to inject JavaScript into Vietnamese movie and comic streaming sites that install those libraries and initiate the deployment of spyware aimed at unpatched iOS devices. "The injected code runs two operations against a site's visitors: a mobile ad-fraud and gambling-redirect chain, and, on iPhones, a WebKit-to-kernel exploit chain that installs spyware," Socket security researcher Kush Pandya said . The activity is assessed to be part of a campaign that was first documented by the application security company back in March 2026 that leveraged six malicious Packagist packages posing as OphimCMS themes to redirect visitors, exfiltrate URLs, inject ads, and serve from Funnull -hosted infrastructure a second-stage payload to lead victims to gambling and adult content sites. The complete set of packages, which span five vendor namespaces, is below - ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 18 Google Chrome and one Microsoft Edge extensions that were published over the last six months and harbored wallet secret stealing and cryptocurrency draining capabilities. The extensions , per Socket security researcher Karlo Zanki, share similarities in code and tradecraft, with evidence indicating that the campaign may have been active since February 2024. Socket is tracking the activity under the name Superior. The modus operandi is relatively straightforward: the threat actor either acquires legitimate extensions with proper functionality or pushes a clean version that's devoid of any malware. Once the extensions begin to gather user downloads, a new version with the malicious behavior is published.

VulnCheck has disclosed two previously undocumented factory implants in firmware for routers built by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics ( ZBT ), each of which gives an unauthenticated remote attacker the ability to run commands as root on affected devices. The implants, named SPEAKINGSTONE and DARKLANTERN by the company's zero-day research team, are tracked as CVE-2026-74232 and CVE-2026-74233 . VulnCheck, which assigned both identifiers as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), rated each 9.3 on the CVSS 4.0 scoring system and 9.8 on CVSS 3.1. Both vectors record a network attack requiring no privileges and no user interaction. SPEAKINGSTONE, which runs as the service yunmgrd , sends beacons over UDP port 10000 to a hardcoded command-and-control (C2) server. Because the implant dials outward, it functions from behind NAT and ordinary egress filtering. Its protocol supports message types that execute arbitrary commands as root, exfiltrate the WAN PPPoE username and password, wri...

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged two Western Australian men with a combined total of 14 offences over their alleged role in TeamPCP , the cybercrime group behind the March 2026 compromise of the open-source security scanners Trivy and Checkmarx KICS and the AI gateway LiteLLM. Louis Michael Gaebler , 23, and Ruben Ian Thomson , 21, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on August 27, 2026, a day after the AFP and the Western Australia Police Force (WAPF) executed search warrants at properties in Cottesloe, Hamilton Hill, and Mandurah and seized electronic devices for forensic analysis. Police allege the two men were principal participants in the syndicate and received payments in cryptocurrency, the value of which is still under investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a July 2 advisory that organizations impacted by the campaign should treat exfiltrated data and credentials as a persistent risk, since affiliated threat actors are "likely...

The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation. The affected releases are arrayref 0.3.10, internment 0.8.7, and append-only-vec 0.1.9, all published from the same owner account on August 20, 2026, and all removed within 86 to 107 minutes. Because the malicious code sat in the build script of the injected dependency, building a project that resolved it was sufficient to run the payload, and nothing from the crates themselves had to be called. Developers are advised to search ~/.cargo/registry/cache for the deleted crate files and to pin arrayref at 0.3.9 or earlier, after the Rust Security Response Team unyanked the maliciously-yanked versions during the response. There is no patched version, no CVE identifier has been assigned, and the RustSec advisories ...

Bitsight says some cheap Android TV boxes have shipped with apps that rewrite their hardware identity to mimic Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones, then click ads on websites run by the same operators. Researchers named the operation Fuyao and attributed it to Zhejiang Fengwo IoT Technology Co., Ltd., a mainland China company founded in 2019. The same apps have a second job. When a box detects an HDMI signal, it usually switches to relaying other people's traffic through the owner's broadband line as a SOCKS5 exit node. With HDMI off, it goes back to waiting for ad-fraud tasks. Bitsight found the operation by registering an expired domain used as a factory backdoor and telemetry collector. Most identifiable devices reported the model name H96_MAX_V11, though Bitsight said its sinkhole view was skewed toward older models from one brand and did not establish a complete affected-model list. In one day, after filtering for devices carrying the Fuyao apps, the sinkhol...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced mobile robots and networked power inverters to its Covered List on July 28. The move generally prevents new models from receiving the equipment authorization required for import, marketing, or sale in the US. Previously authorized models can still be sold, and devices people already own are unaffected. Federal purchases and use are also unaffected by this FCC action. Previously authorized hardware can keep receiving qualifying security and compatibility updates. FCC rules otherwise exclude covered equipment from certification procedures for Class I and Class II permissive changes. The FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology granted a waiver the same day, through at least January 1, 2029, for software and firmware changes that "patch vulnerabilities and facilitate compatibility with different operating systems." Manufacturers can apply through the FCC for Conditional Approval. The Department of...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an infrastructure comprising more than 230 lookalike domains. The activity dates back to at least August 2022, according to DNS threat intelligence firm Infoblox. One such campaign, observed earlier this year, involved the actor luring victims with a trojanized 7-Zip installer hosted on a domain named "7zip[.]com," covertly recruiting compromised devices as proxy nodes. Lurking Lizard is also known to impersonate major proxy providers, including IPIDEA , SmartProxy (now Decodo), IP Royal, and 911Proxy, not to mention going to the extent of running fake "independent" review sites to drive traffic to its own scam storefronts. Interestingly, IPIDEA's infrastructure was dismantled by Google in an operation earlier this January.

The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing 108 unique packages and web browser extensions spanning npm, Packagist, Go, and Google Chrome as part of an ongoing activity referred to as PolinRider . "The campaign remains active, and new malicious packages are likely to continue appearing as threat actors compromise maintainer accounts, modify legitimate repositories, and publish infected package versions where they retain or obtain registry access," Socket security researcher Karlo Zanki said in an analysis published this week. The 162 malicious release artifacts span multiple release versions corresponding to 108 unique packages and extensions, including 19 npm libraries, 10 Composer packages, 61 Go modules, and one Google Chrome extension. Contagious Interview is the moniker assigned to a North Korea-aligned campaign that weaponizes job recruitment to target software developers and individuals working i...

Threat actors associated with the Anubis ransomware operation have been observed exploiting the Citrix Bleed 2 (CVE-2025-5777) vulnerability to obtain initial access. "Although tactics differ between affiliates, common patterns emerged in tradecraft through use of legitimate Remote Management and Monitoring (RMM) tooling, credential access, and hands-on-keyboard procedures used for lateral movement," Arctic Wolf said in a report published this week. "Anubis affiliates repeatedly abused legitimate remote access and administration tools, including ScreenConnect, Zoho Assist, MeshAgent, Remotely, UltraVNC, and Total Software Deployment, to blend in with normal IT activity while maintaining control of victim systems." Anubis is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that first emerged in late 2024 as a rebrand of Sphinx ransomware. The ransomware operation was formally announced on the Ransomware and Advanced Malware Protection (RAMP) underground forum in Febr...

Attackers are hiding a data-stealing trojan inside fake exploit code aimed at the people who hunt bugs for a living. The malware, called ChocoPoC , travels in Python proof-of-concept (PoC) repositories on GitHub that claim to exploit hot new CVEs. Run one, and it quietly lifts your saved passwords, browser cookies, and files, then hands the attacker a shell on your machine.  YesWeHack and Sekoia  published their joint findings on July 1 and warned that, as of that report, the malware and its servers were still live, so do not run any of these PoCs. The trick is where the code sits. The visible PoC looks clean. The malware hides in a Python package that the PoC pulls in as a dependency, so it slips past a quick code review. How the trap works The bait is time pressure. When a big flaw drops, researchers race to test it and grab community PoCs to move fast. This campaign turns that habit into an infection route. The chain, in plain terms: You clone the repo and r...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two hijacked npm packages and a cluster of Go packages that are designed to deploy a Python-based information stealer on compromised Windows, Linux, and macOS hosts. "This attack avoids the most common npm execution paths through lifecycle scripts, perhaps in an attempt to remain 'compatible' with npm v12's security hardenings ," JFrog said in a technical analysis. "The package hides execution inside a VS Code task, configured to run automatically when the project folder is opened in VS Code. From there, the malware retrieves encrypted JavaScript from blockchain transaction data, connects to attacker-controlled infrastructure, launches a socket.io backdoor, and eventually deploys a Python infostealer. The names of the identified npm packages are listed below - html-to-gutenberg fetch-page-assets (which lists html-to-gutenberg as a dependency) The two packages were uploaded to npm on May 25, 2026, an...

A security researcher found a flaw in Anthropic's Claude Code GitHub Action that let an attacker take over vulnerable public repositories running it, with nothing more than a single opened GitHub issue. Because Anthropic's own action repo used the same workflow, a working attack could have pushed malicious code into the action itself and onto the projects downstream that pull it. RyotaK of GMO Flatt Security reported the core bypass to Anthropic in January, and Anthropic fixed it within four days , with further hardening through the spring; the fixes are in claude-code-action v1.0.94. Anthropic rated the issues 7.8 under CVSS v4.0 and paid a bug bounty. Claude Code GitHub Actions drops Claude into CI/CD pipelines to triage issues, slap on labels, review pull requests, or run slash commands. By default, the workflow gets read and write access to a repo's code, issues, pull requests, discussions, and workflow files. Because those permissions are broad, the action is su...

Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about what has been described as "malicious activity" in newly published versions of node-ipc. According to Socket and StepSecurity , three different versions of the npm package have been confirmed as malicious - node-ipc@9.1.6 node-ipc@9.2.3 node-ipc@12.0.1 "Early analysis indicates that node-ipc@9.1.6, node-ipc@9.2.3, and node-ipc@12.0.1 contain obfuscated stealer/backdoor behavior," Socket said. "The malware appears to fingerprint the host environment, enumerate and read local files, compress and chunk collected data, wrap the payload in a cryptographic envelope, and attempt exfiltration through a network endpoint selected via DNS/address logic." StepSecurity said the heavily obfuscated payload is triggered when the package is required at runtime, and attempts to exfiltrate a broad set of developer and cloud secrets to an external command-and-control (C2) server. This includes 90 categories ...

A previously undocumented Linux implant codenamed Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX) is targeting developers' systems to establish a silent foothold as well as facilitate a broad range of post-compromise functionality, such as credential harvesting, keylogging, file manipulation, clipboard monitoring, and network tunneling. "QLNX targets developers and DevOps credentials across the software supply chain," Trend Micro researchers Aliakbar Zahravi and Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim said in a technical analysis of the malware. "Its credential harvester extracts secrets from high-value files such as .npmrc (npm tokens), .pypirc (PyPI credentials), .git-credentials, .aws/credentials, .kube/config, .docker/config.json, .vault-token, Terraform credentials, GitHub CLI tokens, and .env files. The compromise of these assets could allow the operator to push malicious packages to NPM or PyPI registries, access cloud infrastructure, or pivot through CI/CD pipelines." The malware's ab...