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Nx npm Package Hijacked to Exfiltrate Data via AI Toolchain

🛡️ Malicious updates to the Nx npm package were published on 26 August, briefly delivering AI-assisted data‑stealing malware to developer systems. The infected releases injected crafted prompts into local AI CLIs (Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, Amazon Q) to locate GitHub/npm tokens, SSH keys, .env secrets and cryptocurrency wallets, then encoded and uploaded the harvest by creating public repositories under victims' accounts. StepSecurity says eight compromised versions were live for five hours and 20 minutes and that attackers subsequently weaponized stolen GitHub CLI OAuth tokens to expose and fork private organization repositories. Recommended mitigation includes revoking tokens and SSH/GPG keys, making exposed repos private, disconnecting affected users and following a full remediation plan.

Supply-Chain Attacks on Nx and React Expose Dev Credentials

🔒 A coordinated supply-chain campaign compromised multiple npm packages — most notably the Nx build system — and used post-install scripts to harvest developer assets across enterprise environments. Wiz found the malware weaponized local AI CLI tools to exfiltrate filesystem contents, tokens, SSH keys, and environment variables. Separately, JFrog uncovered obfuscated malicious React packages designed to steal Chrome data. Vendors removed the packages and recommend rotating credentials, removing affected versions, and auditing developer and CI systems.

Nx Build Supply-Chain Attack: Trojanized Packages Detected

🔐 The Nx package ecosystem was trojanized via a malicious post-install script, telemetry.js, which exfiltrated developer secrets from macOS and *nix environments. Stolen items included npm and GitHub tokens, SSH keys, crypto wallets, API keys and .env contents, uploaded to public GitHub repositories. Immediate actions include auditing Nx package versions, removing affected node_modules, rotating all potentially exposed secrets and monitoring repositories and Actions for misuse.

Malicious Nx npm Packages in 's1ngularity' Supply Chain

🔒 The maintainers of nx warned of a supply-chain compromise that allowed attackers to publish malicious versions of the npm package and several supporting plugins that gathered credentials. Rogue postinstall scripts scanned file systems, harvested GitHub, cloud and AI credentials, and exfiltrated them as Base64 to public GitHub repositories named 's1ngularity-repository' under victim accounts. Security firms reported 2,349 distinct secrets leaked; maintainers rotated tokens, removed the malicious versions, and urged immediate credential rotation and system cleanup.

Hook Android Trojan Evolves with Ransomware Features

🛡️Researchers at Zimperium zLabs have detected a new variant of the Hook Android banking Trojan that expands beyond banking fraud to include ransomware-style overlays and advanced surveillance tools. The sample supports 107 remote commands, 38 of which are newly introduced, enabling fake NFC prompts, lock-screen bypasses, transparent gesture-capturing overlays and real-time screen streaming. Operators are distributing malicious APKs via GitHub repositories and continue to exploit Android Accessibility Services for automated fraud and persistent control. Industry observers warn the campaign is global and rapidly escalating, increasing risks to both enterprises and individual users.

HOOK Android Trojan Adds Ransomware Overlays, Expands

🔒 Cybersecurity researchers at Zimperium zLabs have identified a new HOOK Android banking trojan variant that deploys full-screen ransomware-style overlays to extort victims. The overlay is remotely triggered via the command "ransome" and displays a warning, wallet address and amount, and can be dismissed by the attacker with "delete_ransome". An offshoot of ERMAC, the latest HOOK builds on banking malware techniques and now supports 107 remote commands, introducing transparent gesture-capture overlays, fake NFC and payment screens, and deceptive unlock prompts to harvest credentials and crypto recovery phrases.

Fake macOS Help Sites Spread SHAMOS Infostealer via Ads

🔒 CrowdStrike disrupted a malvertising campaign that redirected users to counterfeit macOS help pages and urged them to run a malicious one-line installation command. Observed between June and August 2025, the operation sought to deliver the SHAMOS variant of the Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), a Mach-O binary distributed by MaaS operator Cookie Spider. The installer decoded a Base64 string, executed a Bash script that captured credentials and fetched the payload from icloudservers[.]com.

Malicious Go Module Poses as SSH Brute-Force Tool, Steals

🔒 Researchers identified a malicious Go module that masquerades as an SSH brute-force utility but secretly exfiltrates credentials to a threat actor via a hard-coded Telegram bot. The package, golang-random-ip-ssh-bruteforce, published on June 24, 2022 and still accessible on pkg.go.dev, scans random IPv4 addresses, attempts concurrent logins from a small username/password list, and disables host key verification. On the first successful login it sends the IP, username and password to @sshZXC_bot, which forwards results to @io_ping, allowing the actor to centralize harvested credentials while distributing scanning risk.

Microsoft’s open-source journey: from Linux to AI scale

🔎 Microsoft recounts its transition from an early Linux contributor in 2009 to one of the largest open-source supporters in cloud and AI today. The post highlights Azure as a top contributor to the CNCF, the 2015 launch of VS Code, the 2018 GitHub acquisition, and the role of AKS and managed PostgreSQL in enterprise deployments. It also describes COSMIC, explains how OpenAI’s ChatGPT runs at global scale on Azure infrastructure, and lists projects Azure teams are building in the open.

Microsoft Named Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant

🚀 Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and is positioned furthest to the right in Completeness of Vision. The announcement highlights a developer-first approach across containers, functions, APIs, and web frameworks, with integrated tools such as GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio. Azure emphasizes AI-native capabilities through Azure AI Foundry and platform innovations designed to accelerate agentic applications for enterprise scenarios.

AWS Security Incident Response Adds ITSM Integrations

🛡️ AWS Security Incident Response now integrates with popular ITSM platforms like Jira and ServiceNow, offering bidirectional synchronization for issues, comments, attachments, and case updates. The connectors are provided as open-source projects on GitHub with sample code, deployment instructions, and implementation best practices. A modular design and technical documentation make it straightforward to extend support to additional ITSM targets and to leverage AI assistants for rapid customization.

Falcon Stops COOKIE SPIDER's SHAMOS macOS Delivery

🔒 Between June and August 2025, the CrowdStrike Falcon platform blocked a widespread malware campaign that attempted to compromise more than 300 customer environments. The campaign, operated by COOKIE SPIDER and renting the SHAMOS stealer (an AMOS variant), used malvertising and malicious one-line install commands to bypass Gatekeeper and drop a Mach-O executable. Falcon detections—machine learning, IOA behavior rules and threat prevention—prevented SHAMOS at download, execution and exfiltration stages. CrowdStrike published hunting queries, mitigation guidance and IOCs including domains, a spoofed GitHub repo and multiple script and Mach-O hashes.

Microsoft Named Leader in 2025 Container Management

🚀 Microsoft announced it was recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management, reflecting the scope and customer impact of its container portfolio. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and hybrid/multicloud capabilities with Azure Arc are highlighted for developer productivity, operational simplicity, and AI readiness. The company emphasized developer tooling like AKS Automatic (preview), Azure Developer CLI, and GitHub Copilot, plus integrated security through Microsoft Defender for Containers and Azure Policy. Customer examples such as ChatGPT, Telefônica Brasil, Coca‑Cola, Hexagon, and Delta Dental illustrate real-world outcomes.

GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry: Enterprise AI for Agents

🚀 Today Microsoft announced general availability of OpenAI's flagship model, GPT-5, in Azure AI Foundry, positioning it as a frontier LLM for enterprise applications. The GPT-5 family (GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, GPT-5 nano, GPT-5 chat) spans deep reasoning, real-time responsiveness, and ultra-low-latency options, all accessible through a single Foundry endpoint and managed by a model router to optimize cost and performance. Foundry pairs agent orchestration, tool-calling, developer controls, telemetry, and compliance-aware deployment choices to help organizations move from pilot projects to production.

Implementing Defense-in-Depth for AWS CodeBuild Pipelines

🔒 This guide consolidates practical recommendations for securing AWS CodeBuild CI/CD pipelines, emphasizing webhook configuration, trust boundaries, and least-privilege access. It warns against automatic pull request builds from untrusted contributors and prescribes push-based, branch-based, and contributor-filtered webhook patterns, plus staged rollout using Infrastructure as Code. Additional safeguards include scoped GitHub tokens, per-build IAM roles, isolated build environments, CloudTrail logging, and manual approval gates for sensitive deployments.

Microsoft .NET Bounty Program Increases Awards to $40,000

🛡️ Microsoft has updated the .NET Bounty Program, expanding scope and increasing maximum payouts to $40,000 for high-impact vulnerabilities. The program now covers all supported versions of .NET and ASP.NET (including Blazor and F#), repository templates, and GitHub Actions in .NET repositories. Awards are now tied to explicit severity and report quality criteria, with higher payments for complete, exploit-backed reports.

Microsoft .NET Bounty Program Raises Awards to $40,000

🔒 Microsoft has expanded the .NET Bounty Program, increasing maximum awards to $40,000 and broadening coverage to include all supported .NET and ASP.NET versions, adjacent technologies like F#, templates, and GitHub Actions. The program simplifies award tiers, aligns impact categories with other Microsoft bounty programs, and defines report quality as complete (working exploit) or not complete, encouraging detailed, actionable submissions.