A worm moved one byte-identical credential stealer through more than 400 npm packages in twelve organisations on 4 August 2026, including @ornikar, @deliveroo, @servicetitan, @qlik, Picsart and the keyv and cacheable family. latest still resolves to a poisoned version on most affected names, and the payload installs a dead-man switch that fires when the stolen GitHub token is revoked, so rotating credentials first triggers it.
keyv and cacheable npm Package Hijacked in Supply Chain Attack | Wiz Blog
Wiz Research is actively investigating an ongoing software supply chain attack affecting multiple keyv/cacheable npm packages.
Keyv and friends compromised in npm supply chain attack
Mini Shai-Hulud malware was injected into keyv and eight related npm packages on August 4, 2026 after an attacker compromised the maintainer's GitHub account
Popular npm Packages in the keyv and Cacheable Namespaces Co...
Popular npm packages keyv and cacheable compromised.
ChainDrop npm Worm: Bun-loaded CI/CD credential harvester with Ethereum dead-drop C2 - StepSecurity
ChainDrop npm worm: 444 packages and 2,212 versions poisoned, starting with keyv@6.0.0. Payload analysis, affected package list, IOCs, and remediation steps.
Inside the keyv npm Supply Chain Compromise | Snyk
The keyv npm compromise used preinstall malware, trusted provenance, and IDE hooks to target developer and CI credentials. Learn how to detect and respond.
Socket on Twitter / X
Update: Socket has found 121 more compromised npm package artifacts across 84 package names, including 64 UiPath artifacts.Combined w/ TanStack, the current known total is 205 affected npm package artifacts across enterprise automation, AI/MCP, auth, workflow, and dev tooling. https://t.co/676HRN5hOW— Socket (@SocketSecurity) May 11, 2026
GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
We showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security analyzer for detecting toxic agent flows.
A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines
A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.
Incident Report: Leaked GitHub Personal Access Token - The Python Package Index Blog
We responded to an incident related to a leaked GitHub Personal Access Token for a PyPI administrator.
The secure way to release an npm package in 2026—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
How to protect your npm package from being stolen in a supply chain attack and improve its position in security ratings
I Was Right About ATProto Key Management - nora's notes
Note: this post has been revised to be split into two sections: a description of what happened, and my analysis. I hope to make it clear that, while I do not like ATProto in general, I am trying to make good-faith critcisms of specific design decisions and outcomes, and in fact, this post getting updoots on HackerNews appears to have gotten the attention of the team, so, mission accomplished. ref, ref My account has since been manually reinstated; this has not happened for any of the other users that have had this issue, as far as I know.
Download pumping: New npm deception technique for supply chain attacks
Learn how attackers exploit automated bot traffic as part of software supply chain attacks to artificially inflate download counters and mask malicious payloads as legitimate.
How a Poisoned Security Scanner Became the Key to Backdooring LiteLLM | Snyk
On March 24, 2026, threat actor known as TeamPCP published backdoored versions of the litellm Python package after stealing PyPI credentials via a compromised Trivy GitHub Action in LiteLLM's CI/CD pipeline. Here's what happened, how the three-stage malware works, and how to check if you're affected.
Glassworm Returns: Invisible Unicode Malware Found in 150+ GitHub Repositories
The Glassworm supply chain attack is back. Researchers uncovered malware hidden in invisible Unicode characters across 150+ GitHub repositories, plus npm packages and VS Code extensions.
GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
GitHub's official MCP server grants LLMs a whole host of new abilities, including being able to read and issues in repositories the user has access to and submit new pull …
