npm Adds 2FA-Gated Publishing and Package Install Controls Against Supply Chain Attacks
Ravie LakshmananMay 23, 2026Software Supply Chain / DevSecOps GitHub has rolled out new controls for npm to improve the security of the software supply chain,…
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Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 High-Severity Flaws in Widely Used Software
Ravie LakshmananMay 23, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Anthropic on Friday disclosed that Project Glasswing has helped uncover more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across…
Laravel-Lang PHP Packages Compromised to Deliver Cross-Platform Credential Stealer
Ravie LakshmananMay 23, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has targeted multiple PHP packages…
CISA Adds Exploited Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One Vulnerabilities to KEV
Ravie LakshmananMay 22, 2026Vulnerability / Cyber Attack The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Langflow and Trend…
Ghostwriter Targets Ukraine Government Entities with Prometheus Phishing Malware
Ravie LakshmananMay 22, 2026Malware / Artificial Intelligence The Belarus-aligned threat actor known as Ghostwriter (aka UAC-0057 and UNC1151Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council) has been…
First VPN Dismantled in Global Takedown Over Use by 25 Ransomware Groups
Authorities in Europe and North America have announced the dismantling of a criminal virtual private network (VPN) service used by criminal actors to obscure the…
Megalodon GitHub Attack Targets 5,561 Repos with Malicious CI/CD Workflows
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new automated campaign called Megalodon that has pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repositories within a six-hour…
Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks
Ravie LakshmananMay 22, 2026Cybercrime / Law Enforcement The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with…
Cisco Patches CVSS 10.0 Secure Workload REST API Flaw Enabling Data Access
Ravie LakshmananMay 22, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has rolled out updates for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Secure Workload that could allow an unauthenticated,…
9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Linux / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The…
Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Endpoint Security / Vulnerability Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation…
Showboat Linux Malware Hits Middle East Telecom with SOCKS5 Proxy Backdoor
Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Cyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux malware dubbed Showboat that has been put to…