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npm Adds 2FA-Gated Publishing and Package Install Controls Against Supply Chain Attacks

GitHub has rolled out new controls for npm to improve the security of the software supply chain, giving maintainers the ability to explicitly approve a… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Packagist Supply Chain Attack Infects 8 Packages Using GitHub-Hosted Linux Malware

A new “coordinated” supply chain attack campaign has impacted eight packages on Packagist including malicious code designed to run a Linux binary retrieved from a… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 High-Severity Flaws in Widely Used Software

Anthropic on Friday disclosed that Project Glasswing has helped uncover more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across some of the most “systemically” important software… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Laravel-Lang PHP Packages Compromised to Deliver Cross-Platform Credential Stealer

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has targeted multiple PHP packages belonging to Laravel-Lang to deliver a comprehensive credential-stealing… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin CVE-2026-48172 Exploited to Run Scripts as Root

A maximum-severity security vulnerability impacting LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin has come under active exploitation in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48172 (CVSS score: 10.0),… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Ghostwriter Targets Ukraine Government Entities with Prometheus Phishing Malware

The Belarus-aligned threat actor known as Ghostwriter (aka UAC-0057 and UNC1151Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council) has been observed using lures related to Prometheus, a… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Megalodon GitHub Attack Targets 5,561 Repos with Malicious CI/CD Workflows

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new automated campaign called Megalodon that has pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repositories within a six-hour… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Making Vulnerable Drivers Exploitable Without Hardware – The BYOVD Perspective

1 Introduction This article provides a technical analysis of how many Windows kernel mode drivers can be interacted with from user mode without the hardware… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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CISA Adds Exploited Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One Vulnerabilities to KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One to its Known Exploited… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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