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Microsoft Warns Python Infostealers Target macOS via Fake Ads and Installers

Microsoft Warns Python Infostealers Target macOS via Fake Ads and Installers

Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Malvertising / Infostealer Microsoft has warned that information-stealing attacks are “rapidly expanding” beyond Windows to target Apple macOS environments by leveraging cross-platform languages like Python and abusing trusted platforms for distribution at… 

Eclipse Foundation Mandates Pre-Publish Security Checks for Open VSX Extensions

Eclipse Foundation Mandates Pre-Publish Security Checks for Open VSX Extensions

Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Supply Chain Security / Secure Coding The Eclipse Foundation, which maintains the Open VSX Registry, has announced plans to enforce security checks before Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions are published… 

CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Web Help Desk RCE to KEV Catalog

CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Web Help Desk RCE to KEV Catalog

Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Software Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog,… 

Docker Fixes Critical Ask Gordon AI Flaw Allowing Code Execution via Image Metadata

Docker Fixes Critical Ask Gordon AI Flaw Allowing Code Execution via Image Metadata

Ravie LakshmananFeb 03, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw impacting Ask Gordon, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant built into Docker Desktop and the Docker Command-Line Interface (CLI),… 

Hackers Exploit Metro4Shell RCE Flaw in React Native CLI npm Package

Hackers Exploit Metro4Shell RCE Flaw in React Native CLI npm Package

Ravie LakshmananFeb 03, 2026Open Source / Vulnerability Threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical security flaw impacting the Metro Development Server in the popular “@react-native-community/cli” npm package. Cybersecurity company VulnCheck said it first observed…