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The most active piece of enterprise infrastructure in the company is the developer workstation. That laptop is where credentials are created, tested, cached, copied, and reused across services, bots, build tools, and now local AI agents. In March 2026, the TeamPCP threat actor proved just how valuable developer machines are. Their supply chain attack on LiteLLM, a popular AI development library downloaded millions of times daily, turned developer endpoints into systematic credential harvesting operations. The malware only needed access to the plaintext secrets already sitting on disk. The LiteLLM Attack: A Case Study in Developer Endpoint Compromise The attack was straightforward in execution but devastating in scope. TeamPCP compromised LiteLLM packages versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI, injecting infostealer malware that activated when developers installed or updated the package. The malware systematically harv...

Threat actors associated with Qilin  and Warlock ransomware operations have been observed using the bring your own vulnerable driver ( BYOVD ) technique to silence security tools running on compromised hosts, according to findings from Cisco Talos and Trend Micro. Qilin attacks analyzed by Talos have been found to deploy a malicious DLL named "msimg32.dll," which initiates a multi-stage infection chain to disable endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. The DLL, launched via DLL side-loading, is capable of terminating more than 300 EDR drivers from almost every security vendor in the market. "The first stage consists of a PE loader responsible for preparing the execution environment for the EDR killer component," Talos researchers Takahiro Takeda and Holger Unterbrink said . "This secondary payload is embedded within the loader in an encrypted form." The DLL loader implements an array of techniques to evade de...

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...