Malicious code in ailaunchkit (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 998620f0a5d4d55fb3afccbaa210f7822a002db4b8ad09d5dae4954723264fb7 Package ailaunchkit version 0.1.2 on PyPI was scanned across 6 files with no static-rule matches and no traced behaviors indicating exfiltration,...

Malicious code in catalogai (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector ccb9ff2c71a85c2bac770a874ed3c811e963ba9b3da37417fb600678d8119991 catalogai 0.1.2 presents itself as a semantic-search / AI-catalog library but the shipped modules perform browser credential theft and...

Amazon Links Debug and Chalk npm Hijack to North Korea’s Sapphire Sleet

Amazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea. For ten months, the incident sat in the public record as crypto theft: a maintainer phished through a lookalike npm domain and a wallet-draining script pushed into at least 18 packages carrying more than...

Fake Coding Tests Deliver OtterCookie-Aligned Malware Hidden in SVG Flag Images

North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed employing steganography in SVG image files to conceal malicious payloads as part of a campaign using fake job postings and coding challenges. "Any user who ran the project ended up with a four-stage payload...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code. This package contains malicious code and was identified as part of the PolinRider supply chain campaign, linked to North Korean threat actors associated with the Contagious Interview/Famous Chollima activity...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code. This package contains malicious code and was identified as part of the PolinRider supply chain campaign, linked to North Korean threat actors associated with the Contagious Interview/Famous Chollima activity...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code. This package contains malicious code and was identified as part of the PolinRider supply chain campaign, linked to North Korean threat actors associated with the Contagious Interview/Famous Chollima activity...

North Korean Hackers Publish 108 Malicious Packages and Extensions in PolinRider Campaign

The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing 108 unique packages and web browser extensions spanning npm, Packagist, Go, and Google Chrome as part of an ongoing activity referred to as PolinRider. "The campaign remains active, and new...

North Korea-Linked npm Packages Mimic Rollup Polyfills to Steal Developer Secrets

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been linked to a fresh set of malicious npm packages that masquerade as Rollup polyfill tooling to facilitate remote access and data theft. According to JFrog, the packages "rollup-packages-polyfill-core" and "rollup-runtime-polyfill-core" mimic the...

New Gaslight macOS Malware Uses Prompt Injection to Disrupt AI-Assisted Analysis

A previously undocumented Rust-based macOS implant and information stealer has been found to embed a prompt injection payload designed to trick a malware analyst's artificial intelligence AI tools and trick it into aborting or refusing an analysis of the artifact. The malware has been codenamed...

Chinese Hackers Abused Google Workspace Rules to Steal Research and Defense Emails

A China-linked espionage group hid inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks for more than a year, quietly stealing sensitive research and defense email. The way in was a backdoor on their REDCap research servers that stole login credentials. The exfiltration was the...

North Korean Hackers Are Turning Developer Tools Into Malware Delivery Channels

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious cyber campaigns that exhibit similarities with a persistent North Korean threat cluster known as Contagious Interview aka Famous Chollima, HexagonalRodent, and Void Dokkaebi. According to a report published by Proofpoint, the threat actor has...

Malicious Package

Overview express-initial is a malicious package. that installs "socket io" as a remote access trojan RAT, then fetch a second-stage payload 0001.dat from the same command-and-control C2 server and execute it. The C2 is linked to FAMOUS CHOLLIMA, a North Korean DPRK group behind the "Contagious...

INTERPOL Operation Takes Down Sniper Dz Phishing Platform, Arrests Administrator

An INTERPOL-led operation last month resulted in the disruption of Sniper Dz , a decade-long phishing-as-a-service PhaaS platform, Group-IB said Thursday. The effort, codenamed Operation Ramz, took place between October 2025 and February 2026, and saw authorities from 13 countries in the Middle...

Analyzing Void Dokkaebi’s Cython-Compiled InvisibleFerret Malware

Void Dokkaebi, a North Korea-aligned intrusion set, has updated its information-stealing malware, InvisibleFerret, shifting its delivery format to evade script-based detections...

Two US Men Jailed for Helping North Korean Hackers Infiltrate US Firms

Matthew Knoot and Erick Prince have been jailed for 18 months each for helping North Korean hackers infiltrate US firms through remote laptop farms...

ScarCruft Hacks Gaming Platform to Deploy BirdCall Malware on Android and Windows

The North Korea-aligned state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft has compromised a video game platform in a supply chain espionage attack, trojanizing its components with a backdoor called BirdCall to likely target ethnic Koreans residing in China. While prior versions of the backdoor hav...

Malicious code in graphicctx (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 8867133b18f35132bf0096bdbd5d1891e87f8a07bbba09f6dffe21c8b048596e Packages in this campaign are used to exfiltrate data from users installing code from prepared Github repositories. Packages contain code to exfiltrate files...

MAL-2026-3224 Malicious code in graphicctx (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 8867133b18f35132bf0096bdbd5d1891e87f8a07bbba09f6dffe21c8b048596e Packages in this campaign are used to exfiltrate data from users installing code from prepared Github repositories. Packages contain code to exfiltrate files...

MAL-2026-3222 Malicious code in graphicsctxs (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 4786ca298bffb09916e622e06411ae44cb51c842a6eb9bf7bcf445c051463888 Packages in this campaign are used to exfiltrate data from users installing code from prepared Github repositories. Packages contain code to exfiltrate files...