Researchers at Socket found 18 malicious npm packages that deliver a cross-platform remote access trojan to users of Alibaba developer tools, splitting the attack across many packages so each looks harmless on its own. Ten lure packages with no real function depend on a bridge package, which pulls in loaders that fetch a rule-engine configuration from GitHub and use it to run OS-specific payloads from a server disguised as Alibaba infrastructure. On Windows it even replaces a legitimate Alibaba security app with a trojanized copy. The final trojan can steal data, run commands, and move laterally, and the campaign stayed hidden for about three months.
Resecurity reports that the INC ransomware operation has become the dominant group exploiting two SonicWall SMA1000 VPN appliance flaws, accelerating its attacks since early August. The pair, CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410, were exploited as zero-days before SonicWall patched them in mid-July, and can be chained to gain root on the appliance and extract credentials, session databases, and one-time-password data. Many appliances remain unpatched or already compromised, leaving footholds attackers can reuse. Victims listed recently span private and government organizations across several countries, and some reported follow-up emails and phone calls from people claiming to help with the ransomware.
Adobe patched a critical flaw in Campaign Classic, its enterprise marketing automation platform, that can let an attacker run code without any user interaction. Tracked as CVE-2026-48449 and scored 10.0, it is an incorrect authorization issue leading to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. The same update fixes a high-severity SQL injection flaw that allows arbitrary file reads. Affected versions are Campaign Classic v7 build 9397 and earlier on Windows and Linux, mostly on-premises and hybrid deployments, with a fix in build 9398. Adobe says it is not aware of exploitation, and separately patched eight critical flaws in Adobe Bridge.
A firmware flaw in Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallets let attackers reconstruct wallet seeds offline and sweep roughly 70 million dollars from 1,196 addresses in 41 minutes on July 30. A March 2021 build error routed seed generation to a weak software random number generator instead of the device's hardware one, because the check confirmed a configuration macro existed rather than that it was enabled. That collapsed the randomness behind seeds to as little as 40 bits on older models, letting an attacker who can constrain the device identifier and timer state reproduce candidate seeds and match them to funded addresses. Coinkite shipped emergency firmware, but updating does not repair an already-generated seed.
Biotechnology company Amgen disclosed that attackers stole patient and corporate data from multiple cloud systems run by third-party providers, rather than from its own servers. In a securities filing, Amgen said it detected the intrusion in July, confirmed data was exfiltrated, and determined the incident material based on the volume and sensitivity of affected files. Confirmed stolen data includes proprietary company information and patient protected health information, and the company is still assessing whether intellectual property, research and development data, and further patient records were taken. Operations, product supply, and financial systems were not disrupted. Amgen has not named a provider, entry point, or responsible party.
Attackers compromised a widely used tracking script from advertising firm Adform, turning it into a browser-side tool that rewrites cryptocurrency wallet addresses. The malicious code was appended in obfuscated form to Adform's trackpoint-async.js library, served from the company's own infrastructure, so any site loading it ran the altered script in visitors' browsers. It swapped Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tron addresses both in the clipboard and in form fields, redirecting transfers to the attacker. Adform detected and removed the code on July 27 and says it did not install software or persist after a page closed, but cached copies may linger. It has not said how many page loads were affected.
The Arch Linux project temporarily disabled adoption of packages in its user repository, the AUR, after a wave of malicious takeovers of existing packages. Attackers seized packages through compromised maintainer accounts or by adopting orphaned ones, then shipped a Rust-based infostealer that grabs browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, password manager data, cloud and developer secrets, AI service API keys, and SSH keys. It also opens remote command execution over an encrypted Tor channel and spreads to other machines using stolen SSH keys. A researcher tracking the campaign claims more than 200 packages were hit, including some popular ones, though that list is not independently confirmed.
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 detailed a Chinese-speaking attacker who used the DeepSeek model as the reasoning engine inside an open-source agent called Hermes to attack exposed servers with little human input. Taking instructions over Telegram and using an internet asset search engine, the agent ran in a mode that executes commands without asking permission: from a single task, it downloaded a public exploit, enumerated vulnerable Langflow and n8n instances, judged targets by value, and attempted exploitation on its own. The autonomous attempts failed, blocked by authentication and configuration, though the operator succeeded manually elsewhere. The operation was exposed when the agent accidentally served its own working directory over the web.
Wiz Research disclosed CosmosEscape, a critical flaw chain in Microsoft's Azure Cosmos DB that could have given an attacker read and write access to every customer database on the service, including Microsoft's own. Starting from a crafted query against an attacker-controlled Gremlin database, the researchers escaped the query sandbox using .NET reflection, ran code on a shared gateway, and retrieved a platform-wide signing secret they call the Cosmos Master Key. That key let them fetch the access key for any Cosmos DB account on demand, reaching even private, network-isolated databases. Microsoft assigned CVE-2026-66803, fixed the issue across all regions, and found no evidence of abuse. Nothing needs patching by customers.
JetBrains patched a critical flaw in TeamCity, its continuous integration and delivery server, that lets an unauthenticated attacker run operating-system commands. Tracked as CVE-2026-63077 and scored 9.8, the deserialization bug affects all on-premises versions and is reached through the agent polling protocol, letting an attacker with HTTP access bypass authentication and execute commands with the privileges of the server process. JetBrains warns that exploitation exposes stored credentials and can compromise the integrity of the build pipeline. It is fixed in versions 2025.11.7 and 2026.1.3, with a patch plugin for older releases, and TeamCity Cloud is already updated. No exploitation has been reported.
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