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Author: Robert Timlick

  • Compromised Nx Console 18.95.0 Targeted VS Code Developers with Credential Stealer

    Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a compromised version of the Nx Console extension that was published to the Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace.

    The extension in question is rwl.angular-console (version 18.95.0), a popular user interface and plugin for code editors like VS Code, Cursor, and JetBrains. The VS Code extension has more than 2.2 million installations. The Open

  • GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack Redirects Tags to Steal CI/CD Credentials

    GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack Redirects Tags to Steal CI/CD Credentials

    In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool/issues-helper, to run malicious code that harvests sensitive credentials and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server.

    “Every existing tag in the repository has been moved to point to an imposter commit that does not appear in the action’s normal commit history,

  • INTERPOL Operation Ramz Disrupts MENA Cybercrime Networks with 201 Arrests

    INTERPOL has coordinated a first-of-its-kind cybercrime crackdown across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that led to 201 arrests and the identification of an additional 382 suspects.
    The initiative involved the efforts of 13 countries from the region between October 2025 and February 2026, aiming to investigate and neutralize malicious infrastructure, arrest perpetrators behind these
  • ⚡ Weekly Recap: Exchange 0-Day, npm Worm, Fake AI Repo, Cisco Exploit and More

    ⚡ Weekly Recap: Exchange 0-Day, npm Worm, Fake AI Repo, Cisco Exploit and More

    Monday opens with a trust problem. A mail server flaw is under active use. A network control system was targeted. Trusted packages were poisoned. A fake model page pushed a stealer. Then came the familiar ransom claim: the data was returned and deleted.
    The pattern is clear. One weak dependency can leak keys. One leaked key can open cloud access. One cloud foothold can become a production
  • How to Reduce Phishing Exposure Before It Turns into Business Disruption

    How to Reduce Phishing Exposure Before It Turns into Business Disruption

    What happens when a phishing email looks clean enough to pass through security, but dangerous enough to expose the business after one click? That is the gap many SOCs still struggle with: the attacks that leave teams unsure what was exposed, who else was targeted, and how far the risk has spread.
    Early phishing detection closes that gap. It helps teams move from uncertainty to evidence faster,
  • Developer Workstations Are Now Part of the Software Supply Chain

    Developer Workstations Are Now Part of the Software Supply Chain

    Supply chain attackers are not only trying to slip malicious code into trusted software. They are trying to steal the access that makes trusted software possible. Recently, three separate campaigns hit npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub in a 48-hour window, and all three targeted secrets from developer environments and CI/CD pipelines, including API keys, cloud credentials, SSH keys, and tokens. This is
  • MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems

    MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems

    Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher behind the recently disclosed Windows flaws, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day flaw that grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems.
    Codenamed MiniPlasma, the vulnerability impacts “cldflt.sys,” which refers to the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver,

  • Pre-Stuxnet Fast16 Malware Tampered with Nuclear Weapons Simulations

    A new analysis of the Lua-based fast16 malware has confirmed that it was a cyber sabotage tool designed to tamper with nuclear weapons testing simulations.
    According to Broadcom-owned Symantec and Carbon Black teams, the pre-Stuxnet tool was engineered to corrupt uranium-compression simulations that are central to nuclear weapon design.
    “Fast16’s hook engine is selectively interested in

  • NGINX CVE-2026-42945 Exploited in the Wild, Causing Worker Crashes and Possible RCE

    A newly disclosed security flaw impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open has come under active exploitation in the wild, days after its public disclosure, according to VulnCheck.
    The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score: 9.2), is a heap buffer overflow in ngx_http_rewrite_module affecting NGINX versions 0.6.27 through 1.30.0. According to AI-native security company depthfirst, the
  • Grafana GitHub Token Breach Led to Codebase Download and Extortion Attempt

    Grafana GitHub Token Breach Led to Codebase Download and Extortion Attempt

    Grafana has disclosed that an “unauthorized party” obtained a token that granted them the ability to access the company’s GitHub environment and download its codebase.

    “Our investigation has determined that no customer data or personal information was accessed during this incident, and we have found no evidence of impact to customer systems or operations,” Grafana
    said
    in a series of