Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Attackers Compromised More Than 70 Microsoft Repositories in Under 2 MinutesAttackers linked to the Miasma supply-chain campaign compromised a Microsoft contributor account and pushed malicious code into more than 70 repositories, using artificial intelligence-assisted coding tools as an infection path to steal credentials and developer secrets at scale.

Water Barghest Group Lists Infected Devices Within 10 Minutes of Initial CompromiseA threat actor with suspected ties to Russian nation-state hackers has listed thousands of IoT devices as proxy networks within minutes of their initial compromise. A campaign that began in 2020 has so far infected 20,000 IoT devices, according to a new report by Trend Micro.

4,387 Online Merchants Compromised, Including Cisco and National Geographic StoresThousands of online stores running Adobe Commerce and Magento software have been hacked since the summer and infected with digital payment skimmers by attackers targeting a vulnerability known as CosmicSting. While patched by Adobe in June, users also need to forcibly invalidate stolen credentials.

Chinese Botnet Targets US Critical Infrastructure and TaiwanA Chinese state-sponsored botnet called Raptor Train has infected more than 260,000 IoT and office network devices to target critical infrastructure globally. The hackers used zero-days and known vulnerabilities to compromise more than 20 different types of devices to expand their botnet.