Ravie LakshmananApr 30, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Malware In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft.…
Ravie LakshmananApr 30, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News The internet is noisy this week. We are seeing some wild new tactics, like people using fake cell towers to send scam texts, while some developers are…
Ravie LakshmananApr 30, 2026Cloud Security / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a stealthy Python-based backdoor framework called DEEP#DOOR that comes with capabilities to establish persistent access and harvest a wide range of…
Intro A sophisticated, high-resilience malicious campaign was identified by Atos Threat Research Center (TRC) in March 2026. This operation specifically targets the high-privilege professional accounts of enterprise administrators, DevOps engineers, and security analysts by impersonating…
Ravie LakshmananApr 30, 2026Linux / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431…
Google has addressed a maximum severity security flaw in Gemini CLI — the “@google/gemini-cli” npm package and the “google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli” GitHub Actions workflow — that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on host systems.…
Ravie LakshmananApr 29, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about a new supply chain attack campaign targeting SAP-related npm Packages with credential-stealing malware. According to reports from Aikido Security, SafeDep,…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic’s Claude Opus large language model (LLM). The package in question is “@validate-sdk/v2,” which…
The Hacker NewsApr 29, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Exposure Validation In February 2026, researchers uncovered a shift that completely changed the game: threat actors are now using custom AI setups to automate attacks directly into the…
Every security team has a version of the same story. The quarter ends with hundreds of vulnerabilities closed. The dashboards are bursting with green. Then someone in a leadership meeting asks: “So, are we actually…