A cyberattack on Collins Aerospace disrupted operations at major European airports, with Heathrow, Brussels, and Berlin most affected. A cyber attack on Collins Aerospace disrupted check-in and boarding systems at major European airports, heavily impacting Heathrow, Brussels, and Berlin. The outage caused numerous flight delays and cancellations, forcing manual operations. Collins Aerospace is a major […]
Researchers uncovered a new supply chain attack targeting the npm registry that impacted over 40 packages belonging to multiple maintainers. Security researchers at Socket uncovered a malicious update to @ctrl/tinycolor, a package with 2.2M weekly downloads on npm. While investigating the case, they discovered it was linked to a larger supply chain attack that compromised […]
A critical flaw in Open VSX Registry could let attackers hijack the VS Code extension hub, exposing millions of developers to supply chain attacks. Cybersecurity researchers at Koi Security discovered a critical vulnerability in the Open VSX Registry (open-vsx.org) that could have let attackers take over the Visual Studio Code extensions marketplace, endangering millions of […]
A supply chain attack hit NPM, threat actors compromised 16 popular Gluestack packages, affecting 950K+ weekly downloads. Researchers from Aikido Security discovered a new supply chain attack targeted NPM, compromising 16 popular Gluestack ‘react-native-aria’ packages with over 950K weekly downloads. The attack began on June 6 at 4:33 PM EST with a malicious update to […]
Supply chain attack via 21 backdoored Magento extensions hit 500–1,000 e-stores, including a $40B multinational. Sansec researchers reported that multiple vendors were hacked in a coordinated supply chain attack, the experts discovered that a backdoor was hidden in 21 applications. Curiously, the malicious code was injected 6 years ago, but the supply chain attack was […]
The xrpl.js Ripple cryptocurrency library was compromised in a supply chain attack aimed at stealing users’ private keys. Threat actors compromised the Ripple cryptocurrency npm JavaScript library xrpl.js to harvest users’ private keys. xrpl.js is the recommended library for integrating a JavaScript/TypeScript app with the XRP, it has more than 140.000 weekly downloads. Hundreds of thousands of […]
The Rules File Backdoor attack targets AI code editors like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, making them inject malicious code via a supply chain vulnerability. Pillar Security researchers uncovered a dangerous new supply chain attack vector called ‘Rules File Backdoor.’ Threat actors could use the technique to silently compromise AI-generated code by injecting malicious code. The attack […]
North Korea-linked group APT37 exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack. A North Korea-linked threat actor, tracked as APT37 (also known as RedEyes, TA-RedAnt, Reaper, ScarCruft, Group123), exploited a recent Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38178 (CVSS score 7.5), in a supply chain attack. Threat intelligence firm AhnLab and South […]
Cybersecurity company Censys has identified over 380,000 hosts that are still referencing the malicious polyfill.io domain. Censys reported that over 380,000 internet-exposed hosts are still referencing the malicious polyfill.io domain. The polyfill.io domain was suspended last week following multiple reports of malicious activity. The domain Polyfill.io was used to host JavaScript code that added modern […]
Malicious actors compromised the JAVS Viewer installer to deliver the RustDoor malware in a supply chain attack. Rapid7 researchers warned that threat actors added a backdoor to the installer for the Justice AV Solutions JAVS Viewer software. The attackers were able to inject a backdoor in the JAVS Viewer v8.3.7 installer that is being distributed from […]