Friday, November 6, 2026

THREATS

Threat Actors Abuse npm Developer Accounts Hijacked to Spread Malicious Packages

A sophisticated phishing campaign targeting the maintainer of eslint-config-prettier, a widely-used npm package with over 3.5 billion downloads, resulted in malicious code being distributed...

Threat Actors Use Advanced Tactics to Personalize Phishing for Malware Delivery

Threat actors are using topic customization as a more advanced strategy in targeted malware-delivery phishing campaigns as the environment of cyber threats changes. This method...

EncryptHub Turns Brave Support Into a Dropper; MMC Flaw Completes the Run

Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers have uncovered a sophisticated EncryptHub campaign that ingeniously abuses the Brave Support platform to deliver malicious payloads, leveraging the recently disclosed...

Infamous XZ Backdoor Found Hidden in Docker Images for Over a Year

Security researchers at Binarly have discovered that the sophisticated supply chain hack still exists in publicly accessible Docker images on Docker Hub, more than...

Hackers Deploy Dedicated Phishlet for FIDO Authentication Downgrade Attacks

Proofpoint researchers have uncovered a novel technique allowing threat actors to bypass FIDO-based authentication through downgrade attacks, leveraging a custom phishlet within adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM)...

Malicious npm Package Lures Job Seekers and Exfiltrates Sensitive Data

A self-proclaimed Ukrainian Web3 team targeted a community member during an interview's first round by instructing them to clone and run a GitHub repository...

Wikipedia Loses Legal Challenge to UK’s Online Safety Act Rules

Mr Justice Johnson at the High Court of Justice in London, the Wikimedia Foundation and a Wikipedia user known as BLN have lost their...

Hackers Extradited to US Over $100 Million Romance Scams and Other Frauds

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, alongside FBI Assistant Director in Charge Christopher G. Raia, announced the unsealing...