Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

A dependency confusion campaign leveraged 33 malicious npm packages to collect reconnaissance data from developer and build environments. This report details the attack chain, observed tradecraft, and detection opportunities to help organizations identify and disrupt related activity. The post Malicious npm packages abuse dependency confusion to profile developer environments appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

CTM360 reports 4,000+ malicious Google Groups and 3,500+ Google-hosted URLs used to spread the Lumma Stealer infostealing malware and a trojanized "Ninja Browser." The report details how attackers abuse trusted Google services to steal credentials and maintain persistence across Windows and Linux systems. [...]

Microsoft is warning of several phishing campaigns that are leveraging tax-related themes to deploy malware and steal credentials

Redmond and Cupertino criticized for slow and weak responses by Australian regulator Australia's e-safety commissioner, a government agency charged with keeping citizens safe online, has delivered a report on seven tech platforms' mechanisms to protect children from online sexual abuse – and found most don't respond quickly, or have the processes to do so well.…