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Shai-Hulud Worm: Large npm Supply Chain Compromise

🪱 Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is investigating an active supply chain attack in the npm ecosystem driven by a novel self-replicating worm tracked as "Shai-Hulud." The malware has compromised more than 180 packages, including high-impact libraries such as @ctrl/tinycolor, and automates credential theft, repository creation, and propagation across maintainers' packages. Unit 42 assesses with moderate confidence that an LLM assisted in authoring the malicious bash payload. Customers are protected through Cortex Cloud, Prisma Cloud, Cortex XDR and Advanced WildFire, and Unit 42 recommends immediate credential rotation, dependency audits, and enforcement of MFA.

Companies Affected by the Shai-Hulud NPM Supply Chain

🔎 From Sept 14–16, more than 180 NPM packages were compromised in the Shai-Hulud worm. The malware propagated by pushing malicious changes to other packages and exfiltrated secrets by publishing data to public GitHub repositories. Using the GitHub Events Archive, UpGuard identified 207 affected repos (175 labeled "Shai-Hulud Migration", 33 "Shai-Hulud Repository"), mapping to 37 users and a set of corporate employers. Affected developers have removed leaked files, but organizations should still audit exposed repos and rotate secrets.

Insight Partners Notifies Thousands After Ransomware Breach

🔒 Insight Partners is notifying thousands of people after a ransomware incident in which a threat actor gained network access via a sophisticated social engineering attack. The attackers reportedly exfiltrated sensitive data — including banking and tax records, personal information of current and former employees, and details related to limited partners, funds, management companies, and portfolio companies — before encrypting servers on January 16, 2025. The firm says formal notification letters and complimentary credit or identity monitoring are being mailed; if you do not receive a letter by the end of September 2025, your personal data was determined not to be impacted. State filings indicate 12,657 individuals were affected, and no group has publicly claimed responsibility.

SonicWall urges credential resets after MySonicWall breach

🔐 SonicWall says firewall configuration backup files in certain MySonicWall accounts were exposed in a security incident and is urging customers to reset credentials immediately. The company reports it cut off attacker access and is working with cybersecurity and law enforcement to investigate. SonicWall published an Essential Credential Reset checklist to help administrators update passwords, API keys, tokens and related secrets and to restrict WAN access before making changes.

TaskUs Employee Allegedly Central to Coinbase Breach

🔒 A US court filing identifies a TaskUs employee as a key conspirator in the December 2024 breach of Coinbase, a compromise publicly disclosed in May 2025. Prosecutors allege support agents were bribed and recruited to steal customer PII, impacting almost 70,000 users and facilitating social engineering and asset theft. The filing names employee Ashita Mishra, accuses her of stealing and photographing hundreds of records per day and selling data for $200 a record, and claims TaskUs tried to minimize and conceal its security failures. Plaintiffs seek monetary damages and court-ordered security reforms.

Cyberattack on HEM expert affects all ten southern stores

🔒 HEM expert has informed customers that a cyberattack on July 18, 2025 affected all ten of its branches in southern Germany. The retailer says business operations continued almost without disruption, but acknowledges that data was stolen and that customer and employee personal information — potentially including names, addresses, dates of birth, contact details and bank or credit card data — may have been compromised. The company is investigating the scope of the leak, working with data protection authorities, and notifying those potentially affected. Some customers complained about delayed notification; HEM expert says it will strengthen security and staff awareness.

Wormable npm campaign infects hundreds, steals secrets

🪱 Researchers have identified a self-propagating npm worm dubbed Shai-Hulud that injects a 3MB+ JavaScript bundle into packages published from compromised developer accounts. A postinstall action executes the bundle to harvest npm, GitHub, AWS and GCP tokens and to run TruffleHog for broader secret discovery. The worm creates public GitHub repositories to dump secrets, pushes malicious Actions to exfiltrate tokens, and has exposed at least 700 repositories; vendors urge rotation of affected tokens.

DoJ Resentences BreachForums Founder to Three Years

⚖️ The U.S. Department of Justice resentenced Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka Pompompurin) to three years in prison after vacating his prior 17‑day time‑served sentence for operating BreachForums and possessing child sexual abuse material. Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty in 2023 to access device conspiracy, access device solicitation, and CSAM possession and agreed to forfeit domains, devices, and cryptocurrency representing illicit proceeds. The resentencing followed a Fourth Circuit decision that remanded his case for a new term.

BreachForums Admin Resentenced to Three Years Prison

🔒 Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, 22, who operated the BreachForums hacking forum under the alias Pompompurin, was resentenced to three years in prison after the U.S. Court of Appeals vacated his earlier sentence of time served and 20 years of supervised release. Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty in July 2023 to conspiracy to commit access device fraud, solicitation to offer access, and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Prosecutors say he violated pretrial release by using VPNs and unauthorized, unmonitored devices to conceal internet activity. BreachForums, created in 2022, rapidly grew to over 330,000 members and facilitated the sale and leakage of stolen data and access to corporate networks.

Fifteen Ransomware Groups Announce Retirement Plans

🔒 Fifteen prominent ransomware groups, including Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters and Lapsus$, posted a collective statement on BreachForums announcing they are ceasing operations and entering a period of “silence.” The announcement framed their activity as exposing systemic vulnerabilities rather than pure extortion and said some members intend to retire on accumulated funds while others will continue studying systems quietly. Analysts and threat intelligence experts cautioned this could be a temporary PR move, noting past groups have rebranded or spawned successors rather than vanishing permanently.

ShinyHunters Breach Hits Gucci, McQueen and Balenciaga

🔒 Luxury fashion groups Gucci, Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga have had customer data exposed in an attack linked to the ShinyHunters group. A sample of files shared with the BBC reportedly included thousands of genuine customer records and spending details, and the group claims data on 7.4 million email addresses. Kering confirmed temporary unauthorized access in June but said no financial information or government identifiers were involved. Security experts warn the data could fuel follow-on fraud, especially if sold on criminal forums.

Self-Replicating Worm Infects Over 180 NPM Packages

🐛 A self-replicating worm dubbed Shai-Hulud has infected at least 187 NPM packages, stealing developer credentials and publishing them to public GitHub repositories that include the string 'Shai-Hulud'. The malware searches for NPM tokens, uses them to inject itself into the top 20 packages accessible to the token and auto-publishes new versions, and leverages tools such as TruffleHog to locate secrets. The campaign briefly affected multiple packages linked to CrowdStrike and was first observed being modified on Sept. 14.

Kering Confirms Customer Data Theft at Gucci and Balenciaga

🔒 Kering has confirmed that an unauthorised third party accessed limited customer data from several of its luxury brands, including Gucci, Balenciaga, and Alexander McQueen. The exposed information may include names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and store purchase histories, while payment card and financial data do not appear to have been compromised. Reports link the incident to the ShinyHunters group and to earlier 2024 breaches and alleged Salesforce CRM access; chat logs indicated ransom discussions, and police later arrested suspects tied to underground leak site BreachForums. Customers have been notified and should be vigilant for phishing, SMS scams, and suspicious calls.

Jaguar Land Rover Extends Production Pause After Cyberattack

🔒 Jaguar Land Rover has extended a pause in production for another week as it continues a forensic investigation into a severe cyberattack disclosed on 2 September 2025. The automaker said operations will remain suspended until Wednesday 24th September 2025 while it prepares a controlled global restart. JLR confirmed some data was stolen but has not attributed the breach to a known group. A group calling itself Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters posted screenshots and claimed to have deployed ransomware.

JLR Extends Production Halt After Cyber Attack, Suppliers

🔒 Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has extended its production pause until at least 24 September after a cyber-attack earlier this month. The outage is causing cascading disruption across its supply chain, with some third-party workers reportedly laid off while JLR employees are not facing job losses. Unite has called for government-backed furloughs for affected contractors. A group using the name Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has claimed responsibility and JLR confirmed some data were affected and regulators have been informed.

FinWise Bank warns of insider data breach affecting 689K

🔒 FinWise Bank notified customers that a former employee accessed customer data after their employment ended, with the incident occurring on May 31, 2024 and discovered on June 18, 2025. The breach affected 689,000 FinWise and American First Finance (AFF) customers, and the bank confirmed that customers' full names were exposed. FinWise engaged external cybersecurity experts, offered 12 months of free credit monitoring and identity-theft protection, and advised customers to place fraud alerts or security freezes and to monitor credit reports and account statements.

Experts Say Scattered Spider 'Retirement' Is a Smokescreen

🕵️ Scattered Spider and roughly 15 affiliated ransomware and cybercrime groups posted a joint manifesto on BreachForums claiming to 'go dark' after recent arrests. Experts point to inconsistencies — an unlikely coalition, rapid timing, and no observed money‑movement — and call the announcement a likely smokescreen. They warn organizations not to lower their guard and to assume tactics and infrastructure remain active, taking immediate hardening steps.

Yurei Ransomware Uses Open-Source Tools for Extortion

🔒 A newly identified ransomware group called Yurei is conducting double-extortion attacks, encrypting files and exfiltrating sensitive data before demanding payment. First observed by Check Point Research on September 5, Yurei has targeted organizations in Sri Lanka, India and Nigeria and may have ties to Morocco. Built largely from open-source Prince-Ransomware code, the malware encrypts each file using per-file ChaCha20 keys protected with ECIES, appending a .Yurei extension, and attempts to provide a ransom page and .onion contact. Although the early variant omits some operational features (for example it fails to set a ransom wallpaper and does not remove Windows shadow copies), the group still threatens publication of stolen data to pressure victims.

Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleges WhatsApp Security Failures

🛡️ Attaullah Baig, former head of security at WhatsApp, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Facebook knowingly failed to fix multiple security flaws in breach of its 2019 settlement with the FTC. The complaint asserts that in 2022 roughly 100,000 accounts were compromised daily, rising to as many as 400,000 daily lockouts by last year, and that inadequate anti-scraping protections exposed profile data at scale. Baig invokes the whistleblower-protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the filing has prompted wider media coverage and potential regulatory scrutiny.

FBI Alerts on UNC6040 and UNC6395 Targeting Salesforce

⚠️ The FBI released IoCs linking two threat clusters, UNC6040 and UNC6395, to a series of data theft and extortion attacks that targeted organizations' Salesforce environments. UNC6395 exploited compromised OAuth tokens tied to the Salesloft Drift app after a March–June 2025 GitHub breach, prompting Salesloft to isolate Drift and take its AI chatbot offline. UNC6040, active since October 2024, used vishing, a modified Data Loader and custom Python scripts to hijack instances and exfiltrate bulk data, while extortion activity has been associated with actors using the ShinyHunters brand.