Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified threat actor activity with overlapping tradecraft commonly associated with ShinyHunters, including voice phishing (vishing), supply-chain compromise, and misconfigured guest access targeting SaaS-based applications. The post Defending SaaS-based applications against ShinyHunters OAuth abuse appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Attacker Socially Engineered Developer With Phishing EmailA hacker laced 18 popular npm packages with cryptocurrency stealing malware after socially engineering the developer into giving up his credentials to the JavaScript runtime environment. Aikido Security said the 18 software packages collectively have downloads of more than two billion each week.

Multiple npm packages have been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack after a maintainer's account was compromised in a phishing attack

Popular npm packages debug, chalk, and others hijacked in massive supply chain attack Crims have added backdoors to at least 18 npm packages after developer Josh Junon inadvertently authorized a reset of the two-factor authentication protecting his npm account.…

In what is being called the largest supply chain attack in history, attackers have injected malware into NPM packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads after compromising maintainers' accounts in a phishing attack. [...]

Developers Listed as Public Contact Points Targeted in Phishing CampaignA supply chain attack that subverted legitimate Google Chrome browser extensions to inject data-stealing malware is more widespread than security researchers first suspected. So far researchers have identified 36 subverted extensions collectively used by 2.6 million people.

Crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger published a new version of its "@ledgerhq/connect-kit" npm module after unidentified threat actors pushed malicious code that led to the theft of more than $600,000 in virtual assets