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npm Adds 2FA-Gated Publishing and Package Install Controls Against Supply Chain Attacks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
GitHub has rolled out new controls for npm to improve the security of the software supply chain, giving maintainers the ability to explicitly approve a release prior to the packages becoming publicly available for installation. Called staged publishing, the feature is now generally available on npm. It mandates that a human maintainer pass a two-factor…
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Packagist Supply Chain Attack Infects 8 Packages Using GitHub-Hosted Linux Malware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A new “coordinated” supply chain attack campaign has impacted eight packages on Packagist including malicious code designed to run a Linux binary retrieved from a GitHub Releases URL. “Although the affected packages were all Composer packages, the malicious code was not added to composer.json,” Socket said. “Instead, it was inserted into package.json, targeting projects that…
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Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 High-Severity Flaws in Widely Used Software [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Anthropic on Friday disclosed that Project Glasswing has helped uncover more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across some of the most “systemically” important software across the world since the cybersecurity initiative went live last month. Project Glasswing is an effort led by the artificial intelligence (AI) company, as part of which a small set…
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Laravel-Lang PHP Packages Compromised to Deliver Cross-Platform Credential Stealer [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has targeted multiple PHP packages belonging to Laravel-Lang to deliver a comprehensive credential-stealing framework. The affected packages include – laravel-lang/lang laravel-lang/http-statuses laravel-lang/attributes laravel-lang/actions “The timing and pattern of the newly published tagsRead More
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LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin CVE-2026-48172 Exploited to Run Scripts as Root [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A maximum-severity security vulnerability impacting LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin has come under active exploitation in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48172 (CVSS score: 10.0), relates to an instance of incorrect privilege assignment that an attacker could abuse to run arbitrary scripts with elevated permissions. “Any cPanel user (including an attacker or a compromised account)…
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Drupal Core SQL Injection Bug Actively Exploited, Added to CISA KEV [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Drupal Core to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-9082 (CVSS score: 6.5), an SQL injection vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Drupal Core. “Drupal CoreRead More
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First VPN Dismantled in Global Takedown Over Use by 25 Ransomware Groups [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Authorities in Europe and North America have announced the dismantling of a criminal virtual private network (VPN) service used by criminal actors to obscure the origins of ransomware attacks, data theft, scanning, and denial-of-service attacks. The disruption of First VPN Service was led by France and the Netherlands, with several other nations supporting the investigation…
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Verizon 2026 DBIR: 6 key takeaways for CISOs
The 2026 DBIR — practically required reading for CISOs — identifies critical enterprise security trends, from exploit-driven breaches to shadow AI dangers and third-party risks.Read More
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Ghostwriter Targets Ukraine Government Entities with Prometheus Phishing Malware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The Belarus-aligned threat actor known as Ghostwriter (aka UAC-0057 and UNC1151Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council) has been observed using lures related to Prometheus, a Ukrainian online learning platform, to target government organizations in the country. The activity, per the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), involves sending phishing emails to governmentRead More
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Identity security for AI agents: The proliferation challenge
Identity teams can accelerate AI adoption with strong security foundations. But managing nondeterministic AI agents is different from securing human identities and traditional NHIs.Read More
