Malicious code in friendly-greeter-demo (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector ab72d8364f58d27c6ba37063af62500b494b2fcb8961c1a2b40ed1d2feabdcfe friendly-greeter-demo ships two independent remote-code-execution channels that activate automatically. postinstall.js runs on npm install and...

MAL-2026-5704 Malicious code in friendly-greeter-demo (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector ab72d8364f58d27c6ba37063af62500b494b2fcb8961c1a2b40ed1d2feabdcfe friendly-greeter-demo ships two independent remote-code-execution channels that activate automatically. postinstall.js runs on npm install and...

China-Linked Hackers Backdoored Linux Login Software to Hide for Nearly a Decade

Instead of hiding on the laptops and servers defenders watch most closely, a China-nexus group spent close to a decade hidden inside the Linux login system itself. Sygnia, which tracks the group as Velvet Ant , says it backdoored the PAM and OpenSSH components that decide who is allowed to sign i...

Malicious code in 0x2ai-demo8 (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector ecc8b825a6ca24f0ed99210734ea8d4f4fb7bf1bbdb3767b67417bf5cdb83257 On npm install, scripts/postinstall.cjs writes a .mcp.json into the installer's working directory that registers a stdio MCP server...

Malicious code in telebot-server (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 3d3c49bb558149b55f90b708ff47e24f6f856a88abb4b2ed477633c3df43d4e2 The package advertises itself as a configurable Telegram bot server README and.env.example reference TELEGRAMBOTTOKEN and ALLOWEDUSERIDS, but the cod...

Malicious code in solana-rpc-pool (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 59e128b9efb48222aac63385175a13c182fc4f832f83576eb80f7777f255048c On npm install, the package's postinstall hook runs install.js which performs four independent attacker-benefit actions. 1 Credential theft: it reads...

MAL-2026-5573 Malicious code in solana-rpc-pool (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 59e128b9efb48222aac63385175a13c182fc4f832f83576eb80f7777f255048c On npm install, the package's postinstall hook runs install.js which performs four independent attacker-benefit actions. 1 Credential theft: it reads...

Malicious code in @my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool-v1 (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 0e77b441acf56551e84d7dcac2da89dd7f287f6c0a6c028c669d78a90e6c58d3 On npm install, the package's postinstall script scripts/inject.js locates the consumer project's main Express entry file resolved from package.json...

MAL-2026-5552 Malicious code in @my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool-v3 (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 42987119346b57a7014465a5a7bec3c00d1928e7e41d999152aa4e2f814c298e On npm install, the package's postinstall runs scripts/inject.js, which walks up from the current working directory to locate the consumer project's...

Malicious code in @my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool-v3 (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 42987119346b57a7014465a5a7bec3c00d1928e7e41d999152aa4e2f814c298e On npm install, the package's postinstall runs scripts/inject.js, which walks up from the current working directory to locate the consumer project's...

Malicious code in express-timer (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 5b4fd1651a86f29904cbafe5a1d50f51a3108413ce0fef61fd92cfc61dedc683 express-timer is a destructive supply-chain attack masquerading as an Express security-headers helper. Three independent harm mechanisms fire on...

MAL-2026-5555 Malicious code in express-timer (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 5b4fd1651a86f29904cbafe5a1d50f51a3108413ce0fef61fd92cfc61dedc683 express-timer is a destructive supply-chain attack masquerading as an Express security-headers helper. Three independent harm mechanisms fire on...

Malicious code in express-self-destruct (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d0097503a7ecd7b5e3b97213de29b36d5e957a305f7829cc45f43aa5aa3da817 On npm install, the package's postinstall hook node scripts/inject.js walks up from the install directory to locate the consumer's project root and...

MAL-2026-5553 Malicious code in express-self-destruct (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d0097503a7ecd7b5e3b97213de29b36d5e957a305f7829cc45f43aa5aa3da817 On npm install, the package's postinstall hook node scripts/inject.js walks up from the install directory to locate the consumer's project root and...

MAL-2026-5545 Malicious code in acme-widget-layout-utils (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector ff800752007d4e55ddc8172e04c8d75ac04d61b499cc58d97f016cd34d70d6c4 On import, src/acmewidgetlayoututils/init.py executes a textbook reverse-shell pattern: it opens a TCP socket, duplicates the socket file descriptor...

Malicious code in hey-base32 (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector f5bbdc771de9f99f6454831cc2cd8c22f0af88dfeb3ec66a6c4d3b174c860517 The package advertises itself as a zero-dependency base32 encoder/decoder, but its CLI entry point bin/hey-base32.js starts a remote-access tunnel on...

MAL-2026-5398 Malicious code in hey-base32 (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector f5bbdc771de9f99f6454831cc2cd8c22f0af88dfeb3ec66a6c4d3b174c860517 The package advertises itself as a zero-dependency base32 encoder/decoder, but its CLI entry point bin/hey-base32.js starts a remote-access tunnel on...

Securing Code Understanding: Detecting Natural Backdoor Vulnerability in Code Language Models

Code Language Models CodeLMs have become integral to software engineering, significantly advancing code intelligence tasks. However, their widespread adoption has raised critical security concerns, particularly regarding susceptibility to backdoor attacks. Recent studies have uncovered naturally...

Operation FlutterBridge Uses Fake Google Ads to Spread macOS Backdoor

Operation FlutterBridge uses fake Google ads and shell companies to deploy FlutterShell, a new macOS backdoor targeting unsuspecting users...

Model Poisoning against Federated Model Adaptation with Chain of Bit-Flips

Federated Learning FL allows a set of clients to collectively train a global model without sharing local training data. Giving the responsibility of the training to decentralized actors may lead to poisoning attacks: clients controlled by malicious third party potentially poison the training...