All news with #credential dumping tag

🔒 Google warns that a China-associated threat actor, UNC6508, ran a prolonged espionage campaign targeting US and Canadian research environments by abusing legacy versions of REDCap. The attackers trojanized upgrade processes with modular malware called INFINITERED to achieve persistence, harvest credentials, and maintain a backdoor. GTIG recommends inspecting REDCap files, validating upgrades, and enforcing stronger authentication and DLP controls.

🛡️ An attacker served tampered JavaScript used by PushEngage, OptinMonster, and TrustPulse, executing only when a logged-in WordPress administrator loaded the files. The malicious code created an attacker-controlled admin account, installed a hidden plugin backdoor providing remote code execution, and exfiltrated credentials to a fake tidio[.]cc domain. Sansec disclosed the campaign on June 13; PushEngage confirmed exposures that lasted longer than the brief windows seen for the other plugins. Site owners should treat any site that loaded the affected scripts during the window as compromised and perform server-side scans and credential rotations immediately.

🔒 Researchers disclosed an unpatched Windows issue that can expose a user's NTLMv2 hash via the search: URI handler. Similar to CVE-2026-33829 in the Snipping Tool, the flaw leverages a crumb=location: parameter to force an SMB connection and trigger NTLM authentication. The weakness produces the same Net-NTLMv2 leak and attack prerequisites, and Microsoft declined to patch it after responsible disclosure.

🔒 CISA is addressing multiple software supply chain intrusions that target developer ecosystems, specifically CI/CD pipelines, code extensions, and workflows. A malicious Nx Console VS Code extension (version 18.95.0) exploited a prior compromise of Nx developer systems to access a GitHub employee’s device, leading to unauthorized access and exfiltration of internal repositories and assignment of CVE-2026-48027. The “Megalodon” campaign injected malicious GitHub Action workflows to harvest CI/CD secrets, cloud credentials, and tokens. CISA urges organizations to detect and remediate potential compromises and implement recommended best practices for package repositories and CI/CD security.

🛡️ CrowdStrike, together with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, announced the simultaneous disruption of all command-and-control channels used by GlassWorm, a persistent campaign that has targeted software developers since early 2025. The operators trojanized VS Code extensions and poisoned npm and Python packages to deliver a data-theft framework capable of credential harvesting and system profiling. Multiple resilient C2 resolution layers were used — Solana memo fields, BitTorrent DHT, Google Calendar events, and commercial VPS hosts — all of which were neutralized in the coordinated action. CrowdStrike attributes the activity to likely Russia-based cybercriminals and warns about the severe risk posed by supply chain compromises to developer ecosystems.

🔒 GitHub said hackers accessed approximately 3,800 internal repositories after a developer installed a malicious version of the Nx Console Visual Studio Code extension that was poisoned during last week's TanStack npm supply-chain attack. The intrusion, linked to the actor known as TeamPCP, used stolen CI/CD credentials to move into multiple projects including UiPath, Guardrails AI and OpenSearch. GitHub secured the compromised device, rotated high-impact secrets and continues log analysis and monitoring to detect follow-on activity.

🔒 Microsoft disclosed an active supply-chain attack that compromised an @antv npm maintainer account and published malicious versions of charting libraries, including echarts-for-react. The obfuscated ~499 KB JavaScript payload executes during npm install and targets GitHub Actions runners to harvest secrets from GitHub, AWS, HashiCorp Vault, npm, Kubernetes and 1Password by scraping process memory and enumerating secret stores. The campaign leverages privilege escalation, dual-channel exfiltration, and SLSA provenance forgery to evade detection; GitHub removed malicious packages and invalidated exposed tokens.

🛡️ A compromised version of the Nx Console extension (rwl.angular-console v18.95.0) published to the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace delivered a multi-stage credential stealer and supply-chain poisoning payload to developers' machines. The obfuscated 498 KB payload, pulled from an orphaned commit in the official nrwl/nx GitHub repo, installs the Bun runtime and a Python backdoor on macOS while exfiltrating secrets via HTTPS, GitHub API and DNS tunneling. The maintainers traced the incident to a developer whose GitHub credentials were exposed, revoked access, and advised users to update to v18.100.0 or later and rotate exposed tokens and keys.

🛡️ OpenAI disclosed that two corporate employee devices were compromised by the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack linked to TanStack. The company said no user data, production systems, or intellectual property were accessed or altered, though limited credential material was exfiltrated from a subset of internal source-code repositories. OpenAI isolated affected systems, revoked sessions, rotated credentials and code-signing certificates, and temporarily restricted deployment workflows. macOS users must update affected apps before the June 12, 2026 certificate revocation cutoff.

🔒 Symantec researchers attribute a February 2026 cyber-espionage campaign to MuddyWater (Seedworm), which spent a week inside a major South Korean electronics manufacturer's network. The attackers relied on DLL sideloading of legitimate binaries — Fortemedia's fmapp.exe and SentinelOne's sentinelmemoryscanner.exe — to load malicious DLLs containing ChromElevator. They used PowerShell (now invoked via Node.js loaders) for reconnaissance, credential theft, persistence and SOCKS5 tunneling, and exfiltrated data via sendit.sh.

🛡️ The TeamPCP group compromised 170 npm and PyPI packages on May 11, rapidly spreading malicious code across ecosystems including the @tanstack router and Mistral AI SDKs. Attackers abused GitHub Actions' pull_request_target trigger to harvest OIDC tokens and inject the Mini Shai-Hulud malware, which steals credentials and carries a destructive dead-man’s switch. Security vendors detected the compromise quickly; affected users should check lockfiles, pin known-good versions, and rotate exposed credentials.

🔒 Škoda Auto has disclosed a data breach after attackers exploited a vulnerability in its online shop software, gaining unauthorized access to customer records. The automaker said the issue was detected via technical security monitoring, the flaw was fixed, and the incident was reported to authorities. Stolen data included names, addresses, contact details, order information, and login credentials (email and hashed passwords), while full credit card data was not stored on the compromised system. Škoda has engaged IT forensics, warned customers about potential phishing and credential reuse, and urged vigilance.

🛡️Researchers at Ontinue warn that attackers are impersonating Anthropic’s Claude Code installer to deploy a previously undocumented PowerShell loader that evades detection and extracts browser encryption material. The campaign swaps the legitimate one-line install command for an attacker-controlled PowerShell chain, establishing stealthy persistence and exfiltration. It also abuses Chrome’s IElevator2 elevation interface to recover Application-Bound Encryption (ABE) keys introduced in Chrome 127.

🔒 A recently disclosed cPanel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-41940, is being exploited at scale to deploy backdoors, plant SSH keys, steal credentials, and compromise hosting systems. Researchers at XLab link much of the activity to a long-running group called Mr_Rot13, with automated scans from over 2,000 attacker IPs observed after the late-April disclosure. The incident highlights weak visibility into hosting control planes and urges organizations to treat exposed control panels as high-priority incidents: patch immediately, rotate credentials, hunt for webshells, and review logs for persistence.

🔒 Researchers report that a threat actor known as Mr_Rot13 is exploiting a critical cPanel/WHM vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940) to deploy a cross-platform backdoor named Filemanager on compromised hosts. A QiAnXin XLab analysis indicates automated attacks from more than 2,000 source IPs worldwide and an infection chain that replaces root credentials, plants SSH keys, deploys a PHP web shell, and delivers a Go-based infector. The malware harvests credentials and system data, sends results to attacker-controlled infrastructure, and enables file management and remote command execution across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

🚨 Ukrainian police arrested three individuals accused of hacking and selling over 610,000 Roblox accounts, reportedly generating about $225,000 in proceeds. The Lviv authorities executed ten searches, seizing $35,000 in cash and multiple devices including 37 mobile phones, 11 desktop PCs, seven laptops, five tablets, and four USB drives. Prosecutors say the suspects — aged 19, 21, and 22 — used info‑stealing malware disguised as a game-enhancer, harvested credentials, categorized accounts by value, and sold high‑value profiles via a Russian website and closed online communities.

🔐 Breakglass Intelligence reports that China-aligned APT41 is deploying an obfuscated Linux ELF backdoor to harvest cloud credentials across AWS, GCP, Azure and Alibaba Cloud. The implant uses a selective SMTP-based C2 over port 25 and typosquatted Alibaba-themed domains hosted in Singapore to exfiltrate tokens and metadata while avoiding scanners. The malware queries instance metadata endpoints (169.254.169.254), sends stolen IAM, service account and managed identity credentials, and emits periodic UDP broadcasts to 255.255.255.255:6006 to coordinate lateral movement. Defenders should monitor SMTP egress, unusual metadata access, unknown ELF binaries, and connections to Alibaba-lookalike domains.

🔒 Researchers report that the JanelaRAT malware, a modified BX RAT, extensively targeted banks and financial services across Latin America, with telemetry showing 14,739 attack attempts in Brazil and 11,695 in Mexico during 2025. The trojan steals banking and cryptocurrency credentials, captures keystrokes, screenshots and system metadata, and uses custom title-bar detection to trigger actions on matched sites. Attackers shifted delivery from VBScript ZIPs to rogue MSI installers and DLL side-loading, often installing a malicious Chromium extension for persistence and data exfiltration. Vendors including Kaspersky, KPMG, and Zscaler documented multi-stage chains and robust C2 capabilities.

🔒 TeamPCP's March 2026 compromise of LiteLLM packages on PyPI injected infostealer malware into versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 that ran during installs and updates. The malware harvested plaintext SSH keys, cloud credentials (AWS, Azure, GCP), Docker configs, IDE and agent memory files, and other local secrets, exploiting transitive dependencies. PyPI removed the packages within hours, but many downstream packages would have triggered execution. Use ggshield, pre-commit hooks, and filesystem scanning to detect and contain local secrets.

🛡️ Kaspersky researchers discovered CrystalX, a subscription-based Remote Access Trojan promoted on Telegram and YouTube that mixes disruptive "prank" capabilities with robust theft and surveillance features. The Trojan can rotate screens, swap mouse buttons, block keyboard input, display arbitrary messages, and disable system utilities, while also stealing credentials, hijacking clipboards to redirect crypto, logging keystrokes, and accessing screen, camera and microphone. Builds are uniquely encrypted per customer and include anti-analysis checks, complicating detection, and Kaspersky products detect and neutralize the threat. Users should avoid pirated software, be cautious with messaging attachments, enable 2FA, keep systems updated, and run reputable security solutions.