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Software Supply Chain
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Software dependency and package ecosystem security
Claude Code Extension Backdoor: How Cursor Users Should Check Their Machines
A malicious Claude Code extension in Cursor's marketplace attempted to install an SSH backdoor. Check the affected versions, exposure window and cleanup steps.
LiteLLM 1.107.0 Ran Malware on Python Startup: How to Recover
LiteLLM 1.107.0 poisoned official PyPI and container releases. Check the exact exposure window, rebuild safely and rotate every credential at risk.
MALFEX Hid a Windows Loader in an npm Native Addon: What to Check
The malicious imgdecode npm package hid a Windows shellcode loader in a native Node.js addon. Here is how it evaded common checks and what defenders should inspect.
Homebrew 7.0.0 Turns Mac Package Installs Into a Security Check
Homebrew 7.0.0 adds built-in vulnerability checks, a native BrewUI Mac app, stronger sandboxing, and several migration deadlines. For developers and Mac admins, the release turns package management into a security and inventory task.
EU Cyber Resilience Act Puts Product Security Teams on a 24-Hour Clock
The EU Cyber Resilience Act’s vulnerability-reporting duties start September 11, forcing makers of connected devices and commercial software to report actively exploited flaws quickly. Product teams should treat the deadline as an operational change, not a paperwork exercise.
Rails Active Storage Flaw Turns Image Uploads Into a Secret-Rotation Drill
Rails maintainers patched CVE-2026-66066, a critical Active Storage flaw that can let attackers turn image uploads into arbitrary file reads and possible remote code execution. For affected teams, the job is not only upgrading Rails and libvips, but checking exposure windows and rotating secrets that may have been readable by the Rails process.
Clean GitHub Repos Can Still Trap AI Coding Agents
Mozilla’s 0DIN showed how an AI coding agent can be led from a normal-looking GitHub setup flow into running a DNS-fetched reverse shell. The proof of concept is a warning for teams letting agents install, initialize, and debug unfamiliar projects on developer machines.
OpenAI Daybreak Turns AI Bug Finding Into a Patching Race
OpenAI expanded Daybreak with Patch the Planet, an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, Codex Security workflows, and a partner program for vetted security vendors. The move shifts the AI cybersecurity race from finding more bugs to validating, patching, testing, and landing fixes before maintainers are overwhelmed.
JetBrains AI Plugin Malware Puts Developer API Keys at Risk
JetBrains says it removed 15 malicious Marketplace plugins that posed as AI coding tools while stealing developer API keys. Users who installed or configured the plugins should revoke affected OpenAI, DeepSeek, SiliconFlow, or other AI provider keys and check usage logs now.
Mastra npm Compromise Turns AI Agent Frameworks Into a Supply-Chain Target
Attackers republished more than 140 Mastra npm packages with a poisoned easy-day-js dependency, exposing AI agent developers to an install-time remote payload. Teams that installed affected @mastra packages on June 17 should treat developer machines and CI runners as compromised.