Rust Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Crates with 245M Downloads Target Build-Time Execution
On August 20, 2026, the Rust Project removed malicious versions of three widely used crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account…
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APT38
[APT38](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0082) is a North Korean state-sponsored threat group that specializes in financial cyber operations; it has been attributed to the Reconnaissance General…
Amazon Links Debug and Chalk npm Hijack to North Korea’s Sapphire Sleet
Amazon Threat Intelligence has attributed the September 2025 hijack of the popular npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea's Sapphire Sleet…
North Korean Hackers Weaponize VS Code and Developer Tools in Supply Chain Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious campaigns linked to North Korean threat actors, exploiting developer tools like Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS…
145 Mastra npm Packages Compromised in Supply Chain Attack, Crypto-Stealer Deployed
On June 17, 2026, a software supply chain attack codenamed 'easy-day-js' compromised 145 npm packages under the @mastra/* namespace, a popular open-source…
Sapphire Sleet: North Korean Threat Actor Behind Supply Chain Attacks
Microsoft assesses with high confidence that the Mastra npm compromise is attributable to Sapphire Sleet, a North Korean threat actor known for…