MAL-2026-10933 Malicious code in twilio-deploy (npm)

The twilio-deploy package is one of four byte-identical dependency-confusion squats of Twilio's npm namespace published by user 'yuva2210' maintainer email [email protected], all at the sentinel version 99.99.99 chosen to outrank any internal/private version and win resolution against a...

PYSEC-2026-207 durabletask 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 1.4.3 contain malicious code distributed via a compromised maintainer account

durabletask versions 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 1.4.3 were published on 2026-05-19 within a 35-minute window through a compromised PyPI maintainer account and contained malicious code. On import, the package fetched a remote payload rope.pyz from an attacker-controlled host and executed it. The payload wa...

Weedhack Attacks Minecraft Users, CountLoader Hits 86K, Miners Spread via Pirated Content

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new campaign targeting Minecraft players via YouTube to spread malware capable of gaining control of victims' systems. The Minecraft-focused malware-as-a-service MaaS campaign has been codenamed Weedhack by McAfee Labs, stating the activity has been active...

Trivy Supply Chain Attack Triggers Self-Spreading CanisterWorm Across 47 npm Packages

The threat actors behind the supply chain attack targeting the popular Trivy scanner are suspected to be conducting follow-on attacks that have led to the compromise of a large number of npm packages with a previously undocumented self-propagating worm dubbed CanisterWorm. The name is a reference...

Malicious Package

Overview tailwind-mainanimation is a malicious package. Upon installation, it silently injects obfuscated JavaScript into the end of legitimate project configuration files like tailwind.config.js. To evade detection, the malware rewrites git history, forging timestamps so the malicious commit...

New Malware Campaign Uses Cracked Software to Spread Lumma and ACR Stealer

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new campaign that leverages cracked versions of software as a lure to distribute information stealers like Lumma and ACR Stealer. The AhnLab Security Intelligence Center ASEC said it has observed a spike in the distribution volume of ACR Stealer since...

Researchers Uncover New Drokbk Malware that Uses GitHub as a Dead Drop Resolver

The subgroup of an Iranian nation-state group known as Nemesis Kitten has been attributed as behind a previously undocumented custom malware dubbed Drokbk that uses GitHub as a dead drop resolver to exfiltrate data from an infected computer, or to receive commands. "The use of GitHub as a virtual...

What did DeathStalker hide between two ferns?

DeathStalker is a threat actor thats been active since at least 2012, and we exposed most of their past activities in a previous article, as well as during a GREAT Ideas conference in August 2020. The actor drew our attention in 2018 because of distinctive attack characteristics that didnt fit in...

What Is a Dead Drop?

A mainstay of spycraft still has plenty of relevance in the digital age...

New Dead drop techniques used by Security Agencies

Paul F Renda give an overview that, What and how new long distance and short distance Dead drop techniques are used by National Security Agency for secure communications. What is a dead drop? It is methods that spies use or have used to communicate with associates who have information for them. T...