The Microsoft Defender team has discovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials, ...
Linked to North Korean fake job-recruitment campaigns, the poisoned repositories are aimed at establishing persistent C2 ...
All of the execution paths identified by its research team are designed to trigger during the Next.js devs' normal working ...
Four rogue NuGet packages and one npm package stole ASP.NET Identity data, deployed C2 backdoors, and reached over 50,000 ...
Security researchers at Microsoft said the campaign targets developers who routinely clone public repositories for evaluation, collaboration or recruitment exercises. The attackers publish projects ...
A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...
Researchers warn malicious packages can harvest secrets, weaponize CI systems, and spread across projects while carrying a dormant wipe mechanism.
The module targets Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Continue, and Windsurf. It also harvests API keys for nine large language models (LLM) providers: ...
“Once contribution and reputation building can be automated, the attack surface moves from the code to the governance process around it. Projects that rely on informal trust and maintainer intuition ...
A fake 7-Zip website is distributing a trojanized installer of the popular archiving tool that turns the user’s computer into a residential proxy node. Residential proxy networks use home user devices ...
Abstract: Secure aggregation becomes a major solution to providing privacy for federated learning. Secure aggregation for mobile devices typically relies on Shamir secret sharing (SSS) to achieve ...
A federal judge dismissed a malicious prosecution lawsuit filed by Tyree Bowie against several law enforcement officials. Bowie, who was acquitted in 2022 in the death of a 2-year-old, alleged that ...