Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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

Attackers compromised Awesome Motive CDN files, backdooring WordPress sites running OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage. Sansec researchers discovered an active supply chain attack hitting WordPress sites running OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage, three plugins operated by Awesome Motive, one of the largest WordPress plugin companies in the world. The malicious JavaScript wasn’t sitting on any victim’s server. […]

TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recentsupply chain attack spree, has been linked to the compromise of the npm and PyPI packages from TanStack, UiPath, Mistral AI, OpenSearch, and Guardrails AI as part of a fresh Mini Shai-Hulud campaign

Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about a new supply chain attack campaign targeting SAP-related npm Packages with credential-stealing malware

A supply chain attack hit Axios when attackers used stolen npm credentials to publish malicious versions containing a phantom dependency. This triggered a cross-platform RAT during installation and replaced its files with clean decoys, making detection challenging.

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.

The Ripple cryptocurrency npm JavaScript library named xrpl.js has been compromised by unknown threat actors as part of a software supply chain attack designed to harvest and exfiltrate users' private keys

The legitimate Solana JavaScript SDK was temporarily compromised yesterday in a supply chain attack, with the library backdoored with malicious code to steal cryptocurrency private keys and drain wallets. [...]

A new set of 48 malicious npm packages have been discovered in the npm repository with capabilities to deploy a reverse shell on compromised systems

The compromised infrastructure of an undisclosed media company is being used by threat actors to deploy the SocGholish JavaScript malware framework (also known as FakeUpdates) on the websites of hundreds of newspapers across the U.S. [...]

The compromised infrastructure of an undisclosed media company is being used by threat actors to deploy the SocGholish JavaScript malware framework (also known as FakeUpdates) on the websites of hundreds of newspapers across the U.S. [...]

An NPM supply-chain attack dating back to December 2021 used dozens of malicious NPM modules containing obfuscated Javascript code to compromise thousands of downstream desktop apps and websites. [...]