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Threat actors are injecting malicious codes into legitimate crypto projects

Malicious actors are now injecting malicious codes into legitimate projects to steal digital assets from unsuspecting users. According to reports, cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a ...
Ars Technica

Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines

An ongoing attack is uploading hundreds of malicious packages to the open source node package manager (NPM) repository in an attempt to infect the devices of developers who rely on code libraries ...
InfoWorld

Tackle malicious Web code without infecting yourself

How do you investigate potentially malicious Web page code without infecting yourself? As a computer security defender, I’m often in a position where I need to investigate a potentially malicious Web ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious Microsoft VSCode extensions target devs, crypto community

Malicious Visual Studio Code extensions were discovered on the VSCode marketplace that download heavily obfuscated PowerShell payloads to target developers and cryptocurrency projects in supply chain ...
Ars Technica

GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Malicious LLMs let unskilled hackers craft dangerous new malware

Large language models are no longer just productivity tools or coding assistants; they are rapidly becoming force multipliers for cybercrime. As guardrails on mainstream systems tighten, a parallel ...
Dark Reading

For $50, Cyberattackers Can Use GhostGPT to Write Malicious Code

A recently debuted AI chatbot dubbed GhostGPT has given aspiring and active cybercriminals a handy new tool for developing malware, carrying out business email compromise scams, and executing other ...
CSOonline

Attackers hide malicious code in Hugging Face AI model Pickle files

The popular Python Pickle serialization format, which is common for distributing AI models, offers ways for attackers to inject malicious code that will be executed on computers when loading models ...
Dark Reading

Attacks on Bytecode Interpreters Conceal Malicious Injection Activity

Attackers can hide their attempts to execute malicious code by inserting commands into the machine code stored in memory by the software interpreters used by many programming languages, such as ...
CSOonline

Malicious npm packages found to create a backdoor in legitimate code

Researchers found malicious packages on the npm registry that, when installed, inject malicious code into legitimate npm packages already residing on developers’ machines. Attackers who target ...