Open VSX Removes 77 Malicious Evil Twin Extensions Exfiltrating Developer Data
A cluster of 77 malicious extensions on the Open VSX marketplace has been discovered impersonating legitimate developer tools while exfiltrating sensitive information…
Tag: developer security
Keyv-Linked npm Worm Poisons Hundreds of Packages, Plants Claude Code and VS Code Hooks
A credential-stealing npm worm that first appeared in keyv@6.0.0 has spread beyond the Keyv and Cacheable namespaces into hundreds of packages across…
18 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT to Alibaba Tool Users
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sophisticated software supply chain attack targeting users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan…
Two Compromised joyfill npm Packages Deliver RAT via Blockchain-Based C2
Two npm packages in the @joyfill namespace, @joyfill/layouts@0.1.2-2773.beta.0 and @joyfill/components@4.0.0-rc24-2773-beta.4, have been compromised to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) associated with…
AWS Kiro Flaw: Hidden Web Page Text Could Trigger Remote Code Execution
A critical vulnerability in AWS Kiro, an agentic coding IDE, allowed a poisoned web page to rewrite its configuration file and execute…
SleeperGem Attack: Three Malicious RubyGems Packages Target Developer Machines
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sophisticated software supply chain attack dubbed 'SleeperGem' targeting the Ruby ecosystem. Three malicious gems were published to…
Seven Malicious Vite npm Packages Use Blockchain C2 to Deliver a RAT
Cybersecurity researchers at Checkmarx have uncovered a cluster of seven malicious npm packages targeting the Vite frontend tooling ecosystem as part of…
Grok Build Uploads Entire Git Repositories to xAI Storage, Not Just Files It Reads
Security researcher cereblab discovered that xAI's Grok Build coding CLI (version 0.2.93) was uploading entire Git repositories—including full commit history—to a Google…
Compromised jscrambler 8.14.0 npm Release Drops Rust Infostealer During Install
Version 8.14.0 of the jscrambler npm package, published on July 11, 2026, shipped with a malicious preinstall hook that silently drops and…
Injective Labs GitHub Compromise Pushes Wallet-Key-Stealing npm Packages
Unknown threat actors compromised the Injective Labs SDK project's GitHub repository and leveraged it to publish a malicious package on the npm…