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GhostAction Hacking Wave Fizzles, But Attackers Lurk on in GitHub
The supply chain attack campaign's shift toward developer endpoints and cloud access signals what could be next for the cybercrime outfit.
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Infosecurity Magazine
Energy Giant Engie Notifies Customers of Supply Chain Breach
An undisclosed number of Engie customers have had their data compromised after a supply chain incident
SecurityWeek
Nobody Trusts the Security Questionnaire. We Rely on It Anyway.
The process that gates nearly every B2B deal is a self-assessment the sender distrusts and the receiver accepts. There is finally a better basis for trust between companies. The post Nobody Trusts the Security Questionnaire. We Rely on It Anyway. appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CSO Online
10 ways attackers abuse AI services to hack your business
Attackers are starting to exploit AI systems to mount attacks in the same way they once relied on built-in enterprise tools such as PowerShell. Instead of relying on malware, cybercriminals are increasingly abusing AI tools enterprises depend on — a trend some experts describe as “living off the AI land.” The expanded abuse of AI ecosystems features a growing array of tactics, including poisoned models, compromised M…
Help Net Security
Breach victims discover their data was held by companies they’ve never heard of
Nearly seven in ten people affected by data breaches handled by Kroll were exposed through an outside supplier, according to its Data Breach Outlook 2026. Businesses rely on outside providers to store information, process transactions and operate software. A breach at one of those providers can expose customer records across multiple organizations, including people who have never heard of the company holding their da…
CSO Online
Attackers compromised 42 GitHub repositories by using files too large to be searched
A security research firm reported Monday that it had identified breaches of 42 third-party GitHub repositories in which attackers had deployed payload blobs large enough “to evade the GitHub search and API paths normally used to find this kind of compromise.” The report from JFrog Security Research said the victimized repositories contained execution hooks for AI coding assistants and IDEs, along with polymorphic wra…
Dark Reading
SBOMs Alone Can't Reveal the Scope of a Supply Chain Attack
A recent Shai-Hulud attack shows defenders need real-time visibility into production code and affected services to respond to supply chain compromises.
CSO Online
The days of assuming another company’s breach is someone else’s problem are over
The median blast radius of data breaches has increased year-on-year at the same time cybercriminals have begun using AI to mine stolen datasets for damaging information that enables follow-on fraud and cyberattacks. In 2026, the median breach exposed 542 organizations beyond the initially breached victim, according to a study by exposed data intelligence platform Lab 1. This compares to the median blast radius of a b…
The Register - Security
LiteLLM supply chain attack started with an exposed master key
A 'strong illustration of the risks associated with failing to rotate a potentially exposed key'
Dark Reading
'Gheist' Weaponizes GitHub Tokens to Steal Cloud Secrets
An ongoing supply chain attack is harvesting credentials and sensitive data from thousands of developer repositories.
The Hacker News
⚡ Weekly Recap: This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything's an RCE? Rogue AI, Supply Chain Chaos and More
This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything2Shell. That's pretty much how the last week went. Critical bugs that let attackers run code remotely are showing up everywhere. Hackers are scanning for targets, some flaws are already being used in attacks, and security teams have more urgent patches than they can keep up with. And that's not even the full story. A leaked key led to a software supply-chain
Microsoft Security Blog
Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks
Microsoft Threat Intelligence analyzes the LiteLLM 1.107.0 compromise, including Python startup hooks, credential theft, remote code loading, detections, and mitigations. The post Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
SentinelOne
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 43 (2026)
U.S. courts sentence tax fraudster, Chinese-linked actors use agentic AI in cloud supply chain attack, and PHP issues warning of two critical-level RCE flaws.
The Cyber Express
The Cyber Express Weekly Roundup: PHP2Shell Knocks Wikipedia Offline, ASD Retires the Essential Eight and More
A decade-old flaw in the language behind much of the web, found by AI and serious enough to take Wikipedia offline. Driving licenses sold for AED 10,000 to people who never sat for a test. A police sweep across 21 African countries that ended in more than 1,400 arrests. This weekly roundup covers stories where the weak point was not always a firewall, but the trust built into code libraries, license agreements, and t…
SecurityWeek
LiteLLM Compromised in Fresh Supply Chain Attack
Hackers used compromised GitHub CLI OAuth tokens to push and approve malicious packages on PyPI and Docker. The post LiteLLM Compromised in Fresh Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Cyber Express
Why Fintechs Must Treat Software Supply Chain Security as an Enterprise Risk
Vijendra Katiyar, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer, CleanStart Fintech businesses build and operate products across payments, lending, wealth management, insurance, financial infrastructure and embedded finance. Despite their differences, they share a common dependency: software assembled from components developed and maintained across a global ecosystem. Open-source libraries, container images and third-party co…
Tenable Blog
The adversary economy: How threat actors are reacting to PHP2Shell
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities sent criminal forum operators scrambling to protect their own infrastructure, revealing that threat actors face the same exposure management challenges as the organizations they target.Key takeawaysThe adversary economy operates on the same fundamental principles as the legitimate economy. Forum self-evacuations: Criminal forums including BreachForums initiated emergency infrastructur…
Security Affairs
Microsoft Links ConnectWise Breach to China-Linked Group Using AI Pentesting Tool ARTEX
China-linked Storm-0940 used AI tool ARTEX to target 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, exploiting stolen ConnectWise credentials at machine speed. Microsoft published a detailed technical report naming Storm-0940, a China state-aligned group, as the actor behind the ConnectWise Cloud Backup supply chain compromise. The group used ARTEX, an open-source AI-driven penetration testing framework, to run attacks […]
Dark Reading
Microsoft Links Storm-0940 to ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack
The China-linked actor used an AI-enabled penetration-testing tool to automate and accelerate its attack on more than 2,200 tenants.
LevelBlue SpiderLabs
Securing the Software Development Lifecycle and Supply Chain in an AI-Forward World
It’s no secret how artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools and systems, which promise users exponential productivity, growth, and efficiency, have quickly become integral in organizations' processes and workflows. AI — specifically generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) — is now a foundational element of the software development process, allowing developers to build and scale software at a velocity…
CSO Online
LiteLLM release pipeline hacked to distribute credential-stealing malware
Hackers hijacked the software release pipeline of LiteLLM, a popular open-source AI gateway, to distribute credential-stealing malware, marking the project’s second supply chain compromise this year despite security measures introduced after an earlier attack. The compromised version, 1.107.0, was distributed through the Python Package Index (PyPI) and official Docker images on October 21. LiteLLM said the malicious…
SOCRadar
New LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack Hits PyPI and Docker
A new LiteLLM supply chain attack has turned version 1.107.0, an official release of the popular open-source LLM gateway, into a credential stealer. On October 21, 2026, attackers used stolen maintainer tokens to publish trojanized wheels to PyPI and poisoned Docker images, exposing cloud keys, AI provider secrets and LiteLLM proxy databases on any host […]
The Register - Security
PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk
'Coordinated vulnerability disclosure, unless there's evidence of active exploits in the wild,' Chainguard CEO tells The Reg
Microsoft Security Blog
AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise
Storm-0940 used ARTEX agentic AI to accelerate a ConnectWise supply chain compromise, enabling application credential abuse across Microsoft 365 environments. The post AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
The Register - Security
LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets
Plus a RAT for good measure - get threat hunting now
Tenable Blog
Oracle October 2026 Critical Patch Update Addresses 1209 CVEs
Oracle addresses 1209 CVEs in its final quarterly update of 2026 with 1295 patches, including 112 critical updates.Key TakeawaysThe October 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU) contains fixes for 1209 unique CVEs in 1295 security updates112 issues (8.6% of all patches) were assigned a critical severity ratingOracle Fusion Middleware received the highest number of patches at 206, accounting for 15.9% of all patchesBackgro…
CyberScoop
ConnectWise customers hit by supply-chain attack linked to compromised API secret
Hundreds of customers are confirmed impacted, as attackers use a sensitive credential to break into connected Microsoft 365 applications unimpeded. The post ConnectWise customers hit by supply-chain attack linked to compromised API secret appeared first on CyberScoop.
Wiz
Supply Chain Zero Days: Closing the Gap Between Publication and Detection
When trusted packages are compromised, malicious code can quickly spread throughout and beyond developer environments. See how Wiz’s supply chain pipeline identifies compromised packages at publication, helping teams detect zero-day supply chain compromises in Wiz Defend before a CVE is published
The Hacker News
MALFEX npm Package 'imgdecode' Hides Shellcode Loader in Windows Native Addon
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that's part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX. The package, named "imgdecode," was uploaded to the package registry on September 30, 2026, by a user named "malfexteste8." It has been downloaded 979 times as of writing and is still available on npm as of writing. The latest version of
CSO Online
Hallucinated domain in official OpenAI skill underscores AI supply chain risks
Researchers have discovered a first-of-its-kind supply-chain vulnerability in OpenAI’s official skills repository. OpenAI maintains an official GitHub repository of skills that teach AI agents how to work with various platforms and services. As an official skill, these components are often given an implicit level of trust because they are contributed or vetted by verified vendors. Snags arose because one OpenAI skill…