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Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new class of CI/CD workflow weakness that allows attackers to hijack workflows and compromise open-source supply chains

As many as 145 npm packages associated with the Mastra namespace ("@mastra/*"), a popular open-source JavaScript and TypeScript framework for building artificial intelligence (AI) applications, have been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack codenamed easy-day-js, per findings from Endor Labs, JFrog, OX Security, SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Synk

Microsoft on Monday confirmed that it temporarily removed some GitHub repositories in response to a recent security incident that led to 73 of its open-source projects being compromised to inject an information stealer into the code

Another malware wave is washing through open-source software repos, stealing publishing tokens, installing OS‑level backdoors and persisting in developer tools and CI pipelines. The post Mini Shai-Hulud returns, compromising hundreds of npm packages appeared first on CyberScoop.

Hundreds of packages across npm and PyPI have been compromised in a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign delivering credential-stealing malware targeting developers. [...]

Recent Package Compromises Pushed Software Component Trust to the Security AgendaCloudsmith raised a $72 million Series C led by TCV to expand policy enforcement, auditability and real-time package risk analysis as CISOs focus more closely on software supply-chain threats tied to open-source dependencies, AI-assisted development and compromised artifacts.

Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method' Yet another npm supply-chain attack is worming its way through compromised packages, stealing secrets and sensitive data as it moves through developers' environments, and it shares significant overlap with the open source infections attributed to TeamPCP last month.…

Our research on Void Dokkaebi’s operations uncovered a campaign that turns infected developer repositories into malware delivery channels. By spreading through trusted workflows, organizational codebases, and open-source projects, the threat can scale from a single compromise to a broader supply chain risk.

Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident Vercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led to compromise of some customer credentials, and blamed an outfit called Context.ai for the mess.…

Time to start dropping SBOMs FEATURE Two supply chain attacks in March infected open source tools with malware and used this access to steal secrets from tens of thousands – if not more – organizations. We won't know the full blast radius for months.…

Researchers at numerous firms are sounding warnings about the supply-chain attack on an open-source project with 100 million weekly downloads. The post Attack on axios software developer tool threatens widespread compromises appeared first on CyberScoop.

Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…

Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code.…

Attackers compromised the open-source security tool and published malicious versions of the software. Mandiant warns the fallout could impact up to 10,000 downstream victims. The post Experts warn of a ‘loud and aggressive’ extortion wave following Trivy hack appeared first on CyberScoop.

Trivy, a popular open-source vulnerability scanner maintained by Aqua Security, was compromised a second time within the span of a month to deliver malware capable of stealing sensitive CI/CD secrets

4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowledge. …

In yet another software supply chain attack, the open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cline CLI was updated to stealthily install OpenClaw, a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that has become exceedingly popular in the past few months

Hacked Infrastructure Delivered Chinese Nation-State Group's Backdoor, Experts WarnThe widely used, open source text-editing software Notepad++ for Windows said attackers exploited a vulnerability to redirect some users to sites that pushed a backdoor onto their system. Security experts have tied the attack to a broader campaign perpetrated by Chinese nation-state actors.

A China-linked threat actor known as Lotus Blossom has been attributed with medium confidence to the recently discovered compromise of the infrastructure hosting Notepad++

Cybersecurity Researchers at ReliaQuest warn of an ongoing campaign delivered to “high-value individuals” via LinkedIn messages