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$500k Lost to a Malicious IDE Extension

A developer installed what seemed to be a legitimate Solidity language extension for Cursor IDE. Within hours, their cryptocurrency wallet was drained of $500,000. The malware spread through the Open

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NGINX Rift and nginx-poolslip: Teardown

What Happened In early 2025, two critical vulnerabilities in NGINX emerged within weeks of each other, both with CVSS v3x scores of 8.1. CVE-2026-42945, known as NGINX Rift, allows remote code executi

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Gitea CVE-2026-27771: 30,000 Deployments Left Private Containers Exposed

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Gitea CVE-2026-27771: 30,000 Deployments Left Private Containers Exposed

A critical authentication bypass in Gitea s container registry exposed private images to unauthorized users across more than 30,000 deployments worldwide. No credentials were needed, leaving what team

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Drupal PostgreSQL Sites Under Active Attack

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Drupal PostgreSQL Sites Under Active Attack

On May 20, 2026, Drupal disclosed CVE-2026-9082 , a critical SQL injection vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. Two days later, CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. This vu

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Nx Package Compromise: AI Agents as Exfiltration Tools

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Nx Package Compromise: AI Agents as Exfiltration Tools

What Happened On August 21, 2024, an attacker merged a pull request that altered the GitHub Actions workflow for the Nx monorepo toolchain, compromising the CI/CD pipeline. This led to the publication

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ESLint Prettier Maintainer Phishing: What Failed

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ESLint Prettier Maintainer Phishing: What Failed

On July 19th, 2024, maintainers of eslint-config-prettier discovered their package had been compromised. Attackers published malicious versions containing credential-stealing malware. With 30,000,000

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npm Maintainer Breach: Phishing to Package Poisoning

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npm Maintainer Breach: Phishing to Package Poisoning

On September 8th, an attacker compromised the npm account of ~qix, a prolific open source maintainer, through a phishing attack. The attacker injected malicious code into widely-used npm packages, red

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18,000 NPM Packages Published in 48 Hours

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18,000 NPM Packages Published in 48 Hours

What Happened In November 2025, researchers detected a surge in NPM package publications. Thousands of packages appeared within a 48-hour period, all following similar naming patterns and structural t

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3,000 npm Packages Poisoned in 48 Hours

What Happened On September 15, 2025, attackers published malicious versions of ngx-bootstrap and ng2-file-upload to the npm registry. These compromised packages were designed to exfiltrate cloud crede

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Worm Turns CI Pipelines Into Attack Infrastructure

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Worm Turns CI Pipelines Into Attack Infrastructure

What Happened Between late 2024 and early 2025, a worm named SHA1-Hulud infiltrated the npm ecosystem through trojanized packages with hidden preinstall scripts. Snyk identified over 600 compromised n

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34 Malicious Packages, 384 Versions: TrapDoor Teardown

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34 Malicious Packages, 384 Versions: TrapDoor Teardown

What Happened On May 22, 2026, at 8:20 p.m. UTC, attackers launched a coordinated supply chain attack across three major package registries. The TrapDoor operation deployed 34 malicious packages spann

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When Agent Sprawl Takes Down Production

Your fraud detection system just made 847 LLM calls to process a single transaction. The request timed out. Your observability dashboard shows nothing unusual. Welcome to multi-agent system failure in

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700 Ghost CMS Sites Hijacked Through SQL Injection

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700 Ghost CMS Sites Hijacked Through SQL Injection

Over 700 websites using Ghost CMS were compromised in February and March 2026 due to CVE-2026-26980, a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the platform s Content API. Attackers exploited this flaw

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AI Vulnerability Scanner Missed Critical Access Controls

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AI Vulnerability Scanner Missed Critical Access Controls

Overview of the Issue This analysis explores the pitfalls when security teams deploy AI-powered vulnerability scanners without understanding their limitations. OpenHack, an MIT-licensed tool by Hadria

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Server-Side Execution via HTTP Body: The React Deserialization Flaw

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Server-Side Execution via HTTP Body: The React Deserialization Flaw

What Happened CVE-2025-55182 enables unauthenticated remote code execution through unsafe deserialization in React Server Components (RSC). Security researcher Lachlan Davidson reported the vulnerabil

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When CI Catches What Your IDE Missed

The Challenge of AI-Accelerated Development Your development team is moving fast with tools like GitHub Copilot or Cursor, shipping features in hours instead of days. However, this speed comes with ri

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