Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Website Popular in Korean Ethnic Enclave in China Hosts Apps Laced With a BackdoorA North Korean hacking group has been spying on a Korean ethnic enclave in China by infiltrating the Android apps of a regional gaming platform that hosts digital card and board games. Researchers attributed the supply-chain attack to a threat actor that Eset tracks as ScarCruft.

The North Korea-aligned state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft has compromised a video game platform in a supply chain espionage attack, trojanizing its components with a backdoor called BirdCallto likely target ethnic Koreans residing in China

You scroll past one incident and see another that feels familiar, like it should have been fixed years ago, but it still works with small changes. Same bugs. Same mistakes

The company said a developer tool automatically retrieved a malicious version of the popular open-source library, but insists the integrity of its systems and software were not impacted. The post OpenAI’s Mac apps need updates thanks to the Axios hack appeared first on CyberScoop.

The TeamPCP hacking group continues its supply-chain rampage, now compromising the massively popular "LiteLLM" Python package on PyPI and claiming to have stolen data from hundreds of thousands of devices during the attack. [...]

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.

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious artifacts distributed via Docker Hub following the Trivy supply chain attack, highlighting the widening blast radius across developer environments

Medical Device Manufacturer Hack Was Likely OpportunisticAn Iranian cyberattack on medical device maker Stryker's internal IT environment does not appear to affect connected products used by the company's healthcare clients. But an outage of Stryker's electronic ordering system could lead to supply chain issues for its customers.

Attack Spotlights Threats, Risks Facing Healthcare Supply ChainUFP Technologies, a Massachusetts-based maker of single-use medical devices and other healthcare supplies, has notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of a cyber incident discovered on Valentine's Day that involved the theft or destruction of company data.

Trust Wallet on Tuesday revealed that the second iteration of the Shai-Hulud (aka Sha1-Hulud) supply chain outbreak in November 2025 was likely responsible for the hack of its Google Chrome extension, ultimately resulting in the theft of approximately $8.5 million in assets

Also, Microsoft Badly Patches LNK Flaw, Australian Sentenced for 'Evil Twin' HackThis week, the React flaw, a belated Windows fix, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Signal group posed operational risk, more North Korean npm packages. An Australian jailed for Wi-Fi "evil twin" crimes. The US FTC will send $15.3 million to Avast users. A London council said attackers stole data.

Salesforce believes there has been unauthorized access to its customers’ data through the Gainsight app’s connection to its platform

Fiery Driver Version Didn't Validate Source File, Had Hardcoded CredentialsPrinter servers from major manufactures such as Canon and Sharp could be susceptible to a supply chain hack due to flaws in a driver updater, researchers warn. Cyderes said Wednesday it identified two major security risks in a version of the Fiery Driver Updater.

Symantec Says It Spotted Likely Supply Chain HackSuspected Chinese state-linked hackers reportedly breached a Russian IT service provider in an espionage campaign targeting government-related networks. Symantec uncovered Chinese hackers they named Jewelbug, infiltrating a Russian company between January and May.

Also: The Treasury Department Lifts Tornado Cash SanctionsThis week, Abracadabra hack, updates on Tornado Cash and Bybit, $7M scam money recovery, man faces prison for stabbing crypto CEO, movie director charged for swindle, Ripple-SEC case wrap-up, Grinex is the new Garantex, Gotbit plea deal, Coinbase in supply chain hack and Binance insider risk threat.

Ex-US Air Force officer says companies shouldn't wait for govt mandates Interview Former US Air Force cyber officer Sarah Cleveland worries about the threat of a major supply-chain attack from China or another adversarial nation. So she installed solar panels on her house: "Because what if the electric grid goes down?" …

A cascading supply chain attack that began with the compromise of the "reviewdog/action-setup@v1" GitHub Action is believed to have led to the recent breach of "tj-actions/changed-files" that leaked CI/CD secrets. [...]

The China-lined threat actor behind the zero-day exploitation of security flaws in Microsoft Exchange servers in January 2021 has shifted its tactics to target the information technology (IT) supply chain as a means to obtain initial access to corporate networks

Trump's Procurement Tracking Directive Could Expose Vast Government Data to ThreatsThe White House is mandating federal agencies to track and justify every procurement, a move aimed at transparency but one that experts warn could expose troves of sensitive financial data to hacking, nation-state cyber threats and potential supply chain vulnerabilities across government systems.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formally linked the record-breaking $1.5 billion Bybit hack to North Korean threat actors, as the company's CEO Ben Zhou declared a "war against Lazarus." The agency said the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of the virtual assets from the cryptocurrency exchange, attributing it to a specific cluster