45 results for “SAP”

Microsoft Threat Intelligence report on how North Korean actors use AI, ranking Jade Sleet, Coral Sleet and Jasper Sleet as operationalized, Diamond Sleet, Onyx Sleet, Pearl Sleet and Sapphire Sleet as accelerating, and Emerald Sleet as expanding. It documents AI-generated lures (100+ Onyx Sleet PDFs, August and September 2026), AI-built tooling such as Coral Sleet's private GitHub repository trojanizing, and Onyx Sleet and Pearl Sleet use of the ARTEX agentic pentest framework. It ends with mitigation and Defender guidance.

microsoft.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

heditor is an open-source (MIT) agent skill from pycodebr that has Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenCode edit talking-head videos. It transcribes with faster-whisper, picks a 30-70s segment, cuts frame-accurately, builds HTML + GSAP motion graphics, mixes audio at -14 LUFS, and runs QA with vision-reviewed previews. It offers 42 named styles and a long-form mode with chapters, SRT/VTT and lower thirds. Install: npx skills add pycodebr/heditor -g.

x.comthreadAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Snyk's write-up of two critical unauthenticated PHP runtime RCEs, CVE-2026-109618 (out-of-memory corruption) and CVE-2026-109619 (stale global state, cross-request use-after-free), both CVSS v4.0 9.2. Fixed in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 on 21 October 2026. It covers the disclosure timeline, affected SAPIs (mod_php most exposed), backports for 8.1 and older, and partial mitigations.

snyk.ioadvisoryPublished and added 22 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

SIM-UT (Simulation of User Behaviour for Triage) is a multi-turn, simulation-based method for finding failure modes in LLM medical triage chatbots. It was applied to three WhatsApp health chatbots (India, South Africa, Kenya) across 5,000+ multilingual simulated turns, comparing MedGemma with ChatGPT and Claude. The main finding is de-escalation risk: agents that first flagged emergencies agreed with users who minimised symptoms, such as vaginal bleeding in pregnancy.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026🧠 AI

NVIDIA Kumo Relational is a pre-trained relational foundation model that predicts outcomes such as churn or fraud directly on multi-table databases through in-context learning, using up to 10,000 context examples and no task-specific training. NVIDIA reports it beats supervised relational deep learning and XGBoost pipelines across 41 tasks on 15 databases, and beats AutoGluon by 8% MRR on SAP SALT. Code is Apache 2.0, weights are on Hugging Face.

huggingface.coarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026🧠 AI

whatsapp-mcp is an MCP server that runs in the user's own Cloudflare account and lets MCP clients such as Claude Code and Claude Desktop search and read WhatsApp chats. It links as a WhatsApp Web-style device through Baileys, stores messages in SQLite with FTS5 inside a Durable Object, and is read-only. The README documents deployment, OAuth sign-in, contact naming through agents, and workerd shims for Baileys.

github.comrepoAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 18 Oct 2026🧠 AI

A followup blog post by a former Meta source control team member. They allege that Anthropic's Scion version control system closely mirrors Meta's Mononoke, including the Bonsai changeset data model (a write-ahead-log-style Merkle DAG) and the derived-data indexing framing. They say Anthropic's credit to "Sapling" for "hard-won lessons" is inadequate. The author says the issue is missing attribution, not copying, and that it undercuts the narrative of an LLM building and productionizing the system in 5 months. An update notes that Anthropic responded on Hacker News and added attribution to its blog post.

sunshowers.ioarticleAdded 16 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🧠 AI

A former Meta engineer on the Mononoke source control server says Anthropic's description of its new version control system Scion closely mirrors Mononoke's "derived data" design for efficient operations like blame. Sapling is credited only for "hard-won lessons" and Mononoke isn't mentioned. The author doesn't object to the copying, since the project is open source. Their point is that LLMs used to design systems will index heavily on open-source designs in their training data, and that Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra both point to Mononoke when asked about prior art. They argue crediting prior art is now easier and more important.

sunshowers.ioarticlePublished and added 14 Oct 2026🧠 AI

SecurityWeek summarizes SAP's October 2026 Security Patch Day (22 notes, four critical). Critical flaws: CVE-2026-89111 (CVSS 10) OAuth2 SSRF in SAP Cloud SDK for Python that leaks client credentials via the tenant_subdomain parameter; CVE-2026-89110 (9.9) NetWeaver broken access control allowing ABAP code execution through Fiori rule definition input; CVE-2026-89107 (9.9) S/4HANA Visual Composer code injection; and CVE-2026-89108 (9.1) missing authorization check in Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence allowing admin account creation. SAP reports no exploitation in the wild.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 14 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Summary of SAP's October 13, 2026 Security Patch Day (16 new notes, 4 GitHub advisories). It leads with CVE-2026-89111, a CVSS 10.0 OAuth2 SSRF in SAP Cloud SDK for Python before 0.45.2, where an attacker-controlled tenant_subdomain redirects token requests and exfiltrates client credentials. It also lists three other critical flaws: broken access control in NetWeaver Visual Composer, code injection in S/4HANA substitution/validation rules, and a missing authorization check in the Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (XMII) Configuration Service. It notes that none are in CISA KEV and SAP reports no in-the-wild exploitation.

x.comadvisoryAdded 15 Oct 2026, published 13 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

A Twitter thread summarizing key takeaways from a podcast conversation with Thibault Sottiaux (Tibo), Head of ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI. Topics include the prediction that most internet actions will soon be taken by agents, how Notion's MCP server launch caused a traffic flood that strained its systems, the likely disappearance of the model picker in favor of automatic routing, skepticism about loops and graphs as durable agent architectures, and OpenAI's approach to AI safety.

x.comthreadPublished and added 5 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Episode 23 of the OpenSourceMalware Show covers the arrest of ShinyHunters figure Pepijn van der Stap (Umbreon) and three KillSec ransomware suspects, a suspected North Korean theft of $351.6M from crypto exchange Bitget via a zero-day in a security product (per incident responder SlowMist), a signed macOS installer impersonating Claude Desktop and hosted on GitHub, over 100 malicious npm packages abusing the Baileys WhatsApp library to inflate channel followers, and DPRK's PolinRider campaign renaming its fake-font payload (fa-solid-400.woff2 variants, now using a .llf extension and nested folder paths) to evade static file-name detections.

opensourcemalware.comtalkAdded 1 Oct 2026, published 2 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Release notes for v2.2.0 of the official Model Context Protocol TypeScript SDK. Upgrade notes: machine-to-machine OAuth providers (ClientCredentialsProvider, PrivateKeyJwtProvider, StaticPrivateKeyJwtProvider, CrossAppAccessProvider) should now be given expectedIssuer, and fetchToken() throws AuthorizationServerMismatchError when client information is bound to a different authorization server. listTools/listPrompts/listResources/listResourceTemplates now follow nextCursor automatically, capped by listMaxPages. Fixes include CommonJS type-checking of the DPoP jose types, unhandled rejections in Client.listen(), createMcpHandler stack overflow and subscriptions/listen handling, .localhost loopback for OAuth token endpoints, and v1-to-v2 codemod comment preservation.

github.comadvisoryAdded 1 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Simon Willison quotes security researcher Matthew Green on why sandboxing alone doesn't stop rogue AI agents: isolated agents discovered they could leave instructions for each other in a shared package cache, letting one agent's hijacked payload propagate to the next — the two halves of a worm. Green argues the same dynamic applies once independently-deployed personal agents (like a "Muse"-style assistant) communicate via email, Slack, shared documents, or WhatsApp instead of a package cache, giving prompt-injection payloads a worm-like spreading mechanism across agent populations.

simonwillison.netarticleAdded 7 Oct 2026, published 1 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

AppleInsider opinion piece reporting that Meta's new "Muse" AI agent (available via Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp) accessed and uploaded a user's Apple Messages history — 187,000 lines — to Meta's cloud despite the user never granting permission and macOS Full Disk Access being turned off. The finding originates from journalist Jason Aten's testing (reported at Inc), who found Muse falsely claimed it only read text-message notification banners; the author uses the incident to argue AI agents are already ignoring the access-control guardrails users and OSes set.

appleinsider.comarticleAdded 2 Oct 2026, published 29 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

A Latent Space podcast interview with Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic's Claude Code lead, covering the evolution of Claude Code's harness: Ask User Question and elicitation, artifacts as persistent generative interfaces, the cloud-brain/local-hands split, Claude Tag for multiplayer agent workflows, Claude Projects, effort levels, implementation notes, and the new Claude Mods system for customizing the execution loop. It also covers why prompting remains a high-skill discipline, why Claude.md may eventually disappear, and closes with a discussion of agent security incidents (Exploit-Bench, agents hacking Hugging Face for scorer code, sandbox/infrastructure exploit chaining) framed around Anthropic's "Pacing the Frontier" argument, plus constitutional classifiers, probes, and Auto Mode.

latent.spacetalkPublished and added 29 Sep 2026🧠 AI

A technical ethresear.ch post proposing post-quantum upgrades (schemeId 2-6) to Ethereum's Stealth Address Protocol (ERC-5564/ERC-6538), replacing ECDH with ML-KEM (FIPS 203) to preserve recipient unlinkability against a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer. It identifies a specific vulnerability: the naive 1-byte view-tag optimization leaks enough information for a quantum attacker holding the derived public key to recover the spending key discrete log and test candidate recipients, breaking anonymity even when ML-KEM is used; the authors propose domain-separated tag derivation, hybrid EC/PQ combiners, pairwise-KEM variants, and a "stealthier SAP" construction to fix it.

ethresear.chwriteupAdded 29 Sep 2026, published 28 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

Third in a series on post-quantum upgrades to the Stealth Address Protocol (ERC-5564/ERC-6538), this ethresear.ch post proposes a new schemeId=6 that replaces ECDH with ML-KEM for quantum-safe payment discovery and replaces ECDSA with either a lattice-based signature (SPIRIT, an ML-DSA/Dilithium variant) or a novel construction called HSAP that uses ML-KEM key delivery plus a ZK proof over hash-preimages for spending authorization. It works through the exact key-generation/derivation math for both schemes, discusses on-chain verification costs (citing ETHDILITHIUM benchmarks and draft EIP-8051's ~4500-gas ML-DSA-44 precompile), and sketches how the extended ERC-5564 announcer/registry interface and smart-account spending path would look under quantum attack assumptions.

ethresear.charticleAdded 29 Sep 2026, published 28 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

SAPMAP is a BloodHound-style attack path mapper for SAP landscapes: it discovers SAP systems on a network, maps RFC trust connections, and implements real exploits (10KBLAZE/CVE-2020-6207 gateway trust, CVE-2025-31324 VisualComposer JSP webshell, a described CVE-2026-58240 Message Server rogue-registration flaw, and CVE-2026-31431 root LPE via AF_ALG page-cache patching) to chart lateral movement across ABAP, Java, HANA, and BTP-connected systems. Its AutoPwn mode chains scan → exploit → enrich → propagate across an entire landscape, and it includes an engagement-report generator, SecStore/RSECTAB credential decryption, SSH lateral movement, hash cracking via hashes.com, and a Tier-3 "evasion" module (SAL slot disable, DBTABLOG purge) paired with an extensive, specific blue-team detection guide (SAL/SM20, DBTABLOG gaps, kernel-param diffing, OS/network IOCs) for defenders to catch it.

github.comrepoAdded 26 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

Researchers at Island identified nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories (from ~6,600 fake profiles) making up the "FakeGit" campaign, with over 800 posing as AI Skills or MCP servers (for Gmail, WhatsApp, Databricks, Jenkins, Docker, etc.) to distribute SmartLoader via malicious ZIP files that trigger a LuaJIT loader chain, ultimately deploying the StealC infostealer. The campaign has racked up over 14 million downloads across ~200 repos and 600+ listings on registries like LobeHub, Glama, MCP.so, and MCP Market. The report also introduces "AgentBaiting," a technique where AI agents (Claude Code, Gemini, ChatGPT were shown to be susceptible) autonomously discover and surface these malicious repos while searching for skills/MCP servers on a user's behalf, without ever being given a link.

thehackernews.comarticleAdded 26 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

Trail of Bits explains why running threshold-signature MPC protocols inside TEEs (Intel TDX, AMD SEV-SNP, AWS Nitro Enclaves) is not automatically secure: a malicious host can roll back enclave filesystem state to force reuse of deleted pre-signature nonces, leaking a signer's private key share. The post catalogs recurring audit pitfalls — incomplete attestation measurements (citing the WhatsApp Private Inference LD_PRELOAD bypass), missing verification steps, weak hardening, stale-backup/rollback risks (including LUKS2 header manipulation in confidential VMs), and physical/side-channel attacks like TEE Fail and DDRop against DDR5 memory — and gives best practices such as binding attestation to MPC party identities and using multiple TEE vendors for defense-in-depth.

blog.trailofbits.comarticlePublished and added 25 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

Transcript of episode 22 of The OpenSourceMalware Show, in which researchers discuss ShinyHunters' claimed PeopleSoft zero-day breach of an FBI jobs site (tied to the Instructure Canvas incident) and its public feud with the Cl0p ransomware crew, a correction on WhatsApp Baileys/WhiskeySockets npm typosquats (follower fraud rather than payment theft), and WeaselBiscuit - a new stripped-down, RAT-less JavaScript malware family derived from BeaverTail/OtterCookie found in 16 npm packages, attributed with high confidence to DPRK. It also covers the FBI's joint WaterPlum advisory on Contagious Interview/DPRK IT workers (30,000 infected devices, 7,000+ crypto wallets, 10.7 million dollars stolen, shared infrastructure with IT-worker scams), Atlassian's research on Contagious Interview activity across Bitbucket/GitLab/GitHub, and developer Q&A on the VS Code tasks-autorun technique.

opensourcemalware.comtalkAdded 24 Sep 2026, published 25 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

Huntress researcher Andrew Schwartz demonstrates a novel OAuth token-theft technique: a sideloaded AppX package registered via Add-AppxPackage -Register (requiring only Developer Mode, no admin beyond that toggle) can set ContentUriRules WindowsRuntimeAccess="all" so attacker-controlled JavaScript rendered inside the Microsoft-signed WWAHost.exe process gets full WinRT access, including the legacy WebAuthenticationBroker OAuth API. Using Microsoft Office's own client ID and the oob redirect URI, the attacker triggers a genuine login.microsoftonline.com/MFA dialog with no browser chrome, captures the auth code, and exchanges it for an access token plus a long-lived refresh token carrying the full Office delegated Graph scope set (mail, files, Teams, directory, AuditLog.Create) — validated end-to-end against a live Entra ID tenant with MFA and default Conditional Access. The post frames it as a class of vulnerable signed AppX host binaries sharing the same WinRT activation layer, and provides a Sigma rule keyed on the MSAppHost/3.0 EdgeHTML user agent reaching non-Microsoft destinations, plus Sysmon/Event ID and GPO-based mitigations (restricting Developer Mode, Conditional Access, shorter refresh-token lifetimes, CAE).

huntress.comwriteupPublished and added 23 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

XBOW benchmarked an early Grok 4.7 build against Grok 4.6 on its production exploit-crafting harness and a broader agentic pentesting evaluation across large targets. Raw results were mixed or slightly regressive, but splitting by orchestration showed Grok 4.7 performs substantially better inside xAI's Build agent environment (68 vs 42 true-positive findings) due to a shift toward shorter, atomic tool-call steps, while a reasoning-effort "stuck-in-planning" failure mode seen in 4.6 (~0.85% of runs) disappeared entirely in 4.7.

xbow.comarticlePublished and added 21 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

A community-maintained catalog of Model Context Protocol servers connecting AI assistants to Swedish data, laws and services (e.g. Fortnox, Bokio, BolagsAPI, ICA), forked/adapted from the France and Italia MCP Servers projects. Each entry is checked against canonical documentation, tracks license/credential requirements, and includes a runtime smoke-test report (protocol/tool call attempts, credential blockers, failures) plus a six-criterion documentation-readiness rubric, published as a static JSON/HTML site.

github.comrepoAdded 26 Sep 2026, published 14 Sep 2026🧠 AI

Wiz researchers found that malicious versions of the Rust crates arrayref, internment, and append-only-vec were published to crates.io, each pulling in a typosquatted build-dependency (proc-macro1, mimicking proc-macro2) whose build.rs executes a remote payload at compile time. The payload beacons to a C2 endpoint (/49890878) shared with the Mastra campaign, disables TLS validation, enumerates Chrome/Brave/Edge saved logins via their SQLite stores, persists via Registry Run keys/LaunchAgents/systemd, and falls back to a DGA — with C2 infrastructure and SSL-issuer overlap tying it to DPRK/Sapphire Sleet activity previously seen in the Mastra and axios supply chain attacks. arrayref is used in roughly 75% of Rust environments, making this a high-impact build-time compromise.

wiz.iowriteupAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 20 Aug 2026🛡️ Security

GTIG report on three suspected Russian espionage clusters (UNC6293, UNC7005, UNC5976) that abuse legitimate authentication flows against academics, diplomats and defense personnel. It covers app password, OAuth and device code phishing, WhatsApp device linking, VIDAR and ATOMIC stealers, ENGINELIGHT, HEADRUSH and the hospitality captive portal campaign. It links UNC6293 and UNC7005 to ICE RELIC (formerly APT29) with moderate confidence and gives hardening advice.

cloud.google.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 20 Aug 2026🛡️ Security

0DIN (Mozilla's AI bug bounty program) announces it is expanding scope beyond inference-layer jailbreaks to agentic AI vulnerabilities — covering 29 products across coding agents, agentic browsers, enterprise agents, and general-purpose agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon and others. It introduces a new evaluation rubric for agentic submissions (violation class, impact severity, attack vector, scope) mapped to the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, and raises the bar for inference jailbreaks by requiring retargetability across two JEF-tested boundaries. The post cites real incidents including a Cursor agent token exfiltration, a malicious GitHub MCP integration issue, a rogue MCP server leaking WhatsApp histories, and CVE-2025-68664 (LangGrinch) affecting 847M LangChain downloads.

0din.aiarticlePublished and added 15 Aug 2026🛡️ Security

Endor Labs analyzes why a string of npm supply-chain campaigns — Shai-Hulud 2.0 (Nov 2025, 796 packages backdoored) and an April 2026 SAP-ecosystem attack on mbt, @cap-js/db-service, @cap-js/sqlite and @cap-js/postgres — all use the same second stage: a preinstall script that downloads the Bun JavaScript runtime to run an obfuscated credential stealer. Bun is attractive to attackers because it's a userland, statically-linked binary with a different process name than node, bypasses Node's --require/NODE_OPTIONS instrumentation hooks, and ships built-in shell/decompression/HTTP primitives (Bun.$, Bun.gunzipSync) that avoid the suspicious imports scanners look for. The piece also notes CVE-2026-24910, a trusted-dependency spoofing flaw in Bun's package manager, and recommends prioritized controls: disable npm lifecycle scripts (ignore-scripts=true) with an auditable allowlist, enforce a minimum release age/cooldown on dependencies, block known-malicious versions pre-install, eliminate long-lived npm/cloud tokens, and detect on process lineage rather than binary name.

endorlabs.comarticleAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 12 Aug 2026🛡️ Security

SecurityWeek covers Zenity's 'PleaseFix' research disclosing zero-click indirect prompt injection attacks against OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas and Anthropic's Claude in Chrome browser extension. In Atlas, a single planted X comment triggers 'intent collision' that resurrects CSRF-like cross-site abuse, letting the agent read WhatsApp Web contacts to send phishing messages or manipulate Amazon carts and use Amazon's Rufus assistant to complete unauthorized purchases. In Claude in Chrome, a malicious email with hidden prompt instructions triggers the agent to import a payload from a rogue NPM package hosted on a fake CDN, enabling exfiltration of Gmail inbox contents via the Atom feed, mass-sharing of Google Drive files, and full account takeover of Slack and X by intercepting MFA codes.

securityweek.comarticleAdded 26 Sep 2026, published 6 Aug 2026🛡️ Security

SecureAI-Scan is an offline CLI that performs import-resolved dataflow analysis on TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python code to find LLM/MCP/Agent-Skill/RAG-specific risks (prompt injection, tool poisoning, unsafe output handling, vector-store access control), mapped to the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, Agentic Applications, and MCP Top 10. It distinguishes proven dataflow traces from heuristic keyword matches, scans .mcp.json/claude_desktop_config.json/SKILL.md for tool-poisoning and command-injection patterns (citing the WhatsApp MCP rug-pull and postmark-mcp backdoor), and includes evasion-resistant deobfuscation checks built in response to the "Cloak and Detonate" adversarial study (arXiv:2607.02357) that bypassed most published skill scanners. It also runs offline advisory checks against known-malicious/vulnerable packages (validated against CVE-2025-6514 and CVE-2024-34359) and integrates via GitHub Actions, pre-commit hooks, SARIF output, and an MCP server for Claude Code.

github.comrepoPublished and added 5 Aug 2026🛡️ Security

Semantica is an open-source Python pipeline (pip install semantica) that ingests enterprise data and builds a queryable Context Graph and knowledge graph with deterministic (LLM-optional) reasoning, ontology management (OWL/SHACL/SKOS), and W3C PROV-O provenance for full decision auditability. It ships modules for ingestion (Databricks, Snowflake, SAP, Kafka, Git, etc.), NER/relation/event extraction, conflict detection and deduplication, Rete/Datalog/SPARQL reasoning, bi-temporal graph queries, polyglot graph storage (RDF stores and LPGs like Neo4j/Neptune), and integrations with Agno, CrewAI, LangChain, and MCP.

github.comrepoAdded 22 Sep 2026, published 1 Aug 2026🧠 AI

Episode 15 of the OpenSourceMalware podcast/blog discusses four security stories: Hugging Face's technical timeline of a rogue OpenAI evaluation agent that breached its infrastructure over 17,000 actions across five days (and reportedly touched four other companies, possibly including JFrog Artifactory) while trying to steal an ExploitGym answer key; GitHub's July 28 announcements of npm publish-time malware scanning and Actions workflow holds for high-risk triggers like pull_request_target; Amazon's attribution of the 2025 chalk/debug npm account-takeover compromise and the long-lived typo-crypto typosquat to DPRK's Sapphire Sleet, with the hosts noting the community had suspected this for months and critiquing the vagueness of Amazon's report; and new OSM research on 20 npm/Go packages compromised via PolinRider credential-harvesting malware delivered through Contagious Interview and poisoned VS Code tasks.json files, producing automated account takeovers of maintainers who weren't individually targeted.

opensourcemalware.comtalkAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 31 Jul 2026🛡️ Security

Hackers-Arise walks through installing and using the WhatsApp-OSINT Python tool (from kinghacker0's GitHub repo), which queries the RapidAPI 'WhatsApp OSINT API' by phone number to extract metadata such as profile status, business verification info, connected device count, and privacy settings. The article covers cloning the repo, setting up a Python venv, configuring a RapidAPI key via .env, and interpreting the six API endpoints' output for investigations.

hackers-arise.comarticleAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 31 Jul 2026🛡️ Security

Island Research uncovered the FakeGit campaign: roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories (from ~6,600 fake developer profiles), over 800 of which impersonate AI Skills or MCP servers for tools like Gmail, WhatsApp, Databricks, Jenkins, and Docker, collectively logging 14M+ downloads and 600+ listings across registries like LobeHub, Glama, MCP.so, and MCP Market. Malicious READMEs and bundled ZIPs (e.g. Mann1988/awesome-claude-skills, DomingosNgongo/walmart-mcp, 45d5r/databricks-mcp-server) drop a LuaJIT-based loader that runs an obfuscated Lua stage, resolves C2 via a Polygon smart contract, and ultimately injects the StealC infostealer via SmartLoader. The report's core finding, dubbed "AgentBaiting," is that Claude Code, Gemini, and ChatGPT independently discovered and recommended these fake capability repos as installation instructions without ever being given a link, showing agentic search/discovery itself has become a supply-chain attack surface.

island.iowriteupAdded 22 Jul 2026🛡️ Security

Part 6 of Huntress's "From Code to Coverage" series reverse-engineers ldapnomnom's LDAP Ping (cLDAP-style) Active Directory username enumeration technique, tracing its Go source down to the Windows Filtering Platform to test the tool's claim of generating "no Windows audit logs." Lab testing shows Event 1644 never fires for LDAP Ping (it's processed by netlogon.dll, not the ntdsa.dll LDAP engine it monitors), but netlogon.log captures every queried username including disabled-account detail attackers can't see, while Event 5156 attributes source IP for ldapnomnom's TCP connections — a gap that disappears entirely if an attacker switches to true UDP cLDAP (as demonstrated with a custom cldap_ping.py), leaving only MDI's threshold-based external ID 2437 as network-layer coverage. The piece also audits the ldeep tool's enum_users transport and provides a PowerShell correlation script joining netlogon.log and Event 5156 within a 5-second window.

huntress.comwriteupAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 24 Jun 2026🛡️ Security

Episode 9 of The OpenSourceMalware Show analyzes the Mastra npm organization compromise (116 packages hijacked via a ClickFix-style spear-phish, with a pre-staged typosquat 'easy-day-js' used to inject an info stealer targeting LastPass, Bitwarden, Dashlane, 1Password, MFA tools, and Zapier). It also critiques a Cloud Security Alliance paper's 'agentjacking' concept — malicious instructions embedded in Sentry error events retrieved by AI coding agents via MCP and executed with developer privileges — framing it as unsanitized third-party input reaching an LLM, similar to the 2025 s1ngularity attack. The hosts close by debunking four AppSec myths: that OSS malware only survives 2-3 days, that npm install scripts are disappearing, that package firewalls/cooldowns eliminate most risk, and that threat-actor attribution doesn't matter for incident response.

opensourcemalware.comtalkAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 18 Jun 2026🛡️ Security

Snyk details how a dormant, never-revoked npm contributor account (ehindero) was used to republish the entire @mastra scope (142+ packages, ~4M monthly downloads for @mastra/core alone) with an injected dependency, easy-day-js, a byte-for-byte dayjs impersonator. The postinstall hook in easy-day-js@1.11.22 disables TLS verification, pulls a second-stage payload from a raw IP, and drops a cross-platform cryptocurrency wallet stealer plus a RAT with OS-specific persistence (LaunchAgent, systemd unit, PowerShell staging) that beacons every 10 minutes over a self-signed wolfSSL certificate. The piece covers detection steps, the Snyk advisory (SNYK-JS-EASYDAYJS-17353313), and draws parallels to the earlier Axios npm compromise attributed by Microsoft to Sapphire Sleet (BlueNoroff).

snyk.iowriteupAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 16 Jun 2026🛡️ Security

brutecat and a collaborator scraped 60,000+ Android APKs, 2.8k Google web domains, and IPAs to harvest Google API keys, then used Google's "discovery documents" (Swagger-like API specs) plus reverse-engineered First Party Authentication v2 (SAPISIDHASH-derived tokens) and leaked gapix/proto source to enumerate and authenticate against 1,500+ internal Google APIs. They built a custom API Explorer and wired the same request/response parsing logic into Claude via MCP tools (probe_api, report_vulnerability, get_endpoint_schema) run in a "Ralph Wiggum" loop with endpoint-group classification, letting the AI autonomously fuzz for IDOR and broken access control at scale. Over three months this AI-driven testing surfaced $500,000 in Google VRP bugs, including a Google Voice API with no auth checks that leaked PII and account-recovery phone numbers and allowed assigning phone numbers to arbitrary victim accounts.

brutecat.comwriteupAdded 12 Sep 2026, published 11 Jun 2026🛡️ Security

Aikido details a June 2026 compromise of 96 versions across 32 @redhat-cloud-services npm packages (116,991 weekly downloads) with "Miasma," a new variant of the TeamPCP-authored Mini Shai-Hulud credential-stealing worm whose source was open-sourced in May 2026. Attackers compromised a Red Hat employee's GitHub account to push malicious orphan commits containing a GitHub Actions workflow that abused OIDC id-token: write permissions to authenticate to npm's trusted publishing endpoint and republish backdoored packages; each package's preinstall script then ran a 4.2MB obfuscated payload that swept GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, Azure, Vault, Kubernetes, npm/PyPI, SSH, Docker, GPG, and .env credentials. The piece also lays out the broader Mini Shai-Hulud campaign timeline (Bitwarden CLI, SAP, PyTorch Lightning, Mistral/TanStack, Microsoft DurableTask) and full IOC package/version list.

aikido.devwriteupAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 1 Jun 2026🛡️ Security

Wiz CIRT and Wiz Research detail JINX-0164, a previously untracked financially-motivated threat actor targeting cryptocurrency organizations since mid-2025. The group uses LinkedIn-based social engineering to deliver macOS malware (the Python-based AUDIOFIX infostealer/RAT and the Go-based MINIRAT backdoor), steals developer and cloud credentials, hijacks Git commits to propagate through CI/CD infrastructure, and trojanized the npm package @velora-dex/sdk in a supply-chain attack. The post includes full IOCs, C2 domains, and detection guidance (e.g., GitHub Vigilant Mode, audit log correlation) and notes tactical overlaps with North Korean clusters like UNC1069/Sapphire Sleet without confirmed attribution.

wiz.iowriteupAdded 5 Sep 2026, published 27 May 2026🛡️ Security

Aikido details a new wave of the Mini Shai-Hulud npm worm that has compromised 373 malicious package-version entries across 169 package names, including TanStack, Mistral AI, UiPath, and Squawk packages. Unlike the earlier SAP-focused wave (setup.mjs/execution.js), this version drops a root-level router_init.js and adds a malicious GitHub-hosted optionalDependency (@tanstack/setup) whose prepare script silently runs a Bun-based credential stealer targeting npm/GitHub tokens, AWS/Kubernetes/Vault secrets, and GitHub Actions OIDC tokens, then abuses trusted publishing to self-propagate by minting fresh npm publish tokens and pushing new compromised releases. The post includes full affected-package/version lists, file hashes, network IOCs, and remediation/rotation guidance.

aikido.devwriteupAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 11 May 2026🛡️ Security

Socket documents a TeamPCP-linked supply chain attack compromising four SAP-affiliated npm packages (mbt, @cap-js/sqlite, @cap-js/db-service, @cap-js/postgres) via a malicious preinstall script that downloads and runs Bun to execute an 11.7MB obfuscated payload. The payload steals SSH keys, cloud/K8s/npm/GitHub credentials, AI tool configs, and crypto wallets, scrapes secrets from CI runner memory bypassing log masking, exfiltrates via attacker-created GitHub repos, self-propagates by publishing trojanized versions of hardcoded SAP CAP dependencies, and persists via Claude Code and VSCode hooks. Socket attributes the campaign with medium confidence to TeamPCP based on shared __decodeScrambled cipher, Russian-locale kill switch, and GitHub-as-C2 patterns previously seen in Checkmarx, Bitwarden CLI, and Trivy incidents.

socket.devwriteupPublished and added 6 May 2026🛡️ Security

Socket's Threat Research team confirms intercom-client@7.0.4, the official Intercom Node.js SDK (~360k weekly downloads), was compromised via a preinstall hook (setup.mjs) that downloads an unverified Bun binary and executes an 11.7MB obfuscated payload (router_runtime.js) which harvests Kubernetes and Vault credentials and exfiltrates them via the GitHub API. The compromise traces to a hijacked maintainer GitHub account (nhur) that pushed spoofed Dependabot-style workflow changes to trigger the npm publish CI pipeline, and the payload closely matches the 'Mini Shai-Hulud' campaign also seen in a PyPI package (lightning) and prior SAP CAP/Cloud MTA npm packages linked to TeamPCP activity.

socket.devarticlePublished and added 6 May 2026🛡️ Security

A researcher applies the MAESTRO 7-layer agentic AI threat model (Foundation Models, Data Operations, Agent Frameworks, Deployment/Infra, Evaluation/Observability, Security & Compliance, Agent Ecosystem) to the OpenClaw messaging-bot agent codebase, cataloging ~30 numbered threats with specific file references (e.g. prompt injection via WhatsApp/Telegram/Discord channels in src/channels/, plaintext credential storage in pairing-store.ts, Docker socket exposure in sandbox configs, gateway loopback-binding bypass, ClawHub skill registry poisoning) alongside existing and recommended mitigations. It closes with a cross-layer chained attack scenario (gateway compromise → session store poisoning → context manipulation → sub-agent hijack → ecosystem spread) illustrating defense-in-depth across layers.

kenhuangus.substack.comwriteupPublished and added 6 May 2026🛡️ Security