CrowdStrike, Google, and Shadowserver disrupted GlassWorm command-and-control on 2026-05-26 after the campaign used Open VSX extensions, npm and Python packages, and poisoned GitHub repositories to maintain access to developer systems.
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Technical notes on security incidents, vulnerabilities, and supply chain threats, written for quick triage and review.
- GlassWorm Developer Supply-Chain Botnet Takedown
- LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin CVE-2026-48172: Root Privilege Escalation
CISA added LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin CVE-2026-48172 to KEV on 2026-05-26 with a 2026-05-29 due date. NVD and LiteSpeed now provide exact advisory links, affected version bounds, and the vendor log-check command for redisAble exploitation.
- Windows Shell CVE-2026-32202 KEV: Zero-Click NTLM Coercion
CVE-2026-32202 is an actively exploited Windows Shell protection-mechanism failure that Akamai traced to an incomplete patch for an APT28 LNK exploit chain, allowing zero-click NTLM authentication coercion when Explorer renders a malicious shortcut.
- Chromium Background Fetch Zero-Day: Persistent Service Worker Exposure
A public Chromium Background Fetch proof of concept can keep a service worker alive after a malicious page visit, enabling browser-usage monitoring, proxy-like abuse, and DDoS participation. Reviewed reporting does not support the older SOP/CORS data-theft framing.
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN CVE-2026-20182: KEV Control-Plane Exposure
CISA added Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN CVE-2026-20182 to KEV on 2026-05-14. Cisco lists fixed releases across 20.9, 20.12, 20.15, 20.18, and 26.1 trains; CISA ED 26-03 provides concrete artifact selectors for rogue peering, root SSH, downgrades, and log clearing.
- Drupal Core CVE-2026-9082: KEV SQL Injection Exposure
CISA added Drupal Core CVE-2026-9082 to KEV on 2026-05-22. The exploitable surface is PostgreSQL-backed Drupal Core in affected 8.9.x, 10.x, and 11.x ranges; this article provides composer, settings, and telemetry scripts for exposure and closure.
- Langflow CVE-2025-34291: KEV Origin Validation Exposure
CISA added Langflow CVE-2025-34291 to KEV on 2026-05-21. The issue combines permissive CORS and credentialed refresh-token behavior; this article provides dependency, container, HTTP telemetry, and token-abuse audit scripts.
- Microsoft Defender CVE-2026-41091: KEV Engine EoP Exposure
CISA added Microsoft Defender CVE-2026-41091 to KEV on 2026-05-20. MSRC marks exploitation detected and gives the exact fixed Malware Protection Engine version 1.1.26040.8.
- Microsoft Defender CVE-2026-45498: KEV Platform DoS Exposure
CISA added Microsoft Defender CVE-2026-45498 to KEV on 2026-05-20. MSRC marks exploitation detected and gives the exact fixed Defender Antimalware Platform version 4.18.26040.7.
- Microsoft Exchange CVE-2026-42897: KEV OWA Mitigation Exposure
CISA added Exchange Server CVE-2026-42897 to KEV on 2026-05-15. MSRC marks exploitation detected and points to Exchange Emergency Mitigation Service mitigation ID M2 rather than a normal update table.
- PAN-OS CVE-2026-0300: Captive Portal Remote Root RCE
CISA added PAN-OS CVE-2026-0300 to KEV on 2026-05-06. The vulnerability involves an out-of-bounds write in the User-ID Authentication Portal (Captive Portal) affecting PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls, leading to unauthenticated remote root code execution; this article provides config audits and post-compromise triage scripts.
- Starlette CVE-2026-48710: BadHost Authentication Bypass
Starlette CVE-2026-48710 (BadHost) is a Host-header URL reconstruction flaw fixed in Starlette 1.0.1. New OSTIF, X41, Tenable, and BadHost scanner sources clarify that the highest-risk deployments are FastAPI/Starlette/LLM services whose middleware makes security decisions from request.url.path.
- Trend Micro Apex One CVE-2026-34926: KEV Server Build Exposure
CISA added Trend Micro Apex One CVE-2026-34926 to KEV on 2026-05-21. Trend Micro reports at least one in-the-wild attempt and fixed builds 17079, 18012, and 14.0.20731; this article provides build-export and agent-deployment audit scripts.
- Windows cldflt.sys Zero-Day: MiniPlasma Kernel LPE
MiniPlasma is a public Windows cldflt.sys Cloud Filter driver LPE proof of concept that BleepingComputer tested on fully patched Windows 11 Pro with May 2026 updates. The article now replaces generic secondary sourcing with exact reporting and narrows the claim to local SYSTEM escalation.
- actions-cool GitHub Actions Tag Hijack Credential Theft
GitHub Action tags for actions-cool/issues-helper and actions-cool/maintain-one-comment were moved to imposter commits that scraped GitHub Actions runner memory and exfiltrated CI/CD secrets. StepSecurity's incident center now preserves the two-action scope and shared C2 linkage.
- art-template npm Coruna Browser Exploit Compromise
The npm package art-template was compromised in versions 4.13.5 and 4.13.6 to inject remote browser-side JavaScript that redirected users into a Coruna-like iOS Safari exploit delivery chain.
- Laravel-Lang Composer Tag Rewrite RCE Compromise
Laravel-Lang packages were compromised through rewritten Composer tags that loaded a PHP backdoor through Composer autoload and exposed developer, CI/CD, cloud, and application secrets.
- Megalodon GitHub Actions Secret Exfiltration Campaign
Megalodon added malicious GitHub Actions workflows to thousands of public repositories to collect environment variables, cloud credentials, source-control secrets, and runner tokens.
- Packagist GitHub Postinstall Hook Malware Campaign
A campaign inserted malicious package.json postinstall hooks into Packagist-linked GitHub repositories, causing npm install workflows to download and execute a GitHub Releases binary as /tmp/.sshd.
- shopsprint/decimal Go Module DNS Backdoor Typosquat
The Go module github.com/shopsprint/decimal typosquatted github.com/shopspring/decimal and used an init-time DNS TXT command loop in v1.3.3.
- TrapDoor Cross-Ecosystem Crypto Stealer Campaign
TrapDoor is an active cross-registry supply-chain campaign using npm postinstall hooks, PyPI import-time execution, and Rust build scripts to steal developer, cloud, SSH, and crypto wallet secrets.
- Mini Shai-Hulud Self-Propagating Software Supply Chain Worm
Mini Shai-Hulud is a self-propagating npm/PyPI supply-chain worm. JFrog's May 12 and May 19 updates add a broader count of 170+ npm and 2 PyPI packages, a 323-package @antv wave, and a related @cap-js/openapi 1.4.1 variant.
- Microsoft DurableTask Python SDK PyPI Hijacking
On May 19, 2026, the official Microsoft durabletask Python SDK was compromised on PyPI. Threat actors used hijacked publishing credentials to directly upload malicious versions containing a cloud credential-harvesting payload.
- Nx Console VS Code Extension Compromise
On May 18, 2026, the official Nx Console VS Code extension was compromised when attackers used an OAuth token stolen in the TanStack compromise to publish malicious version v18.95.0, resulting in the theft of 3,800 internal GitHub repositories.
- Node-IPC Expired Domain & Maintainer Account Hijacking
On May 14, 2026, the highly popular Node.js library node-ipc was compromised in a major supply chain attack. Attackers re-registered the expired email domain of a dormant lead maintainer to reset their npm account password and publish credential-stealing updates.
- TanStack CI/CD Release Pipeline Poisoning
On May 11, 2026, the popular open-source project TanStack fell victim to a CI/CD release pipeline poisoning attack. Threat actors hijacked the release pipeline via a pull request exploitation vector and OIDC token theft to publish 84 backdoored versions across 42 packages.
- intercom-client npm Mini Shai-Hulud Compromise
On April 30, 2026, `intercom-client@7.0.4` on npm introduced a first-ever `preinstall` hook that executed a Bun-launched obfuscated credential stealer and exfiltrated secrets through GitHub APIs.
- Lightning PyPI Bun-Based Credential Stealer
On April 30, 2026, malicious `lightning` PyPI releases 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 shipped an import-time loader that bootstrapped Bun and executed a large obfuscated JavaScript credential stealer.
- elementary-data PyPI and GHCR GitHub Actions Compromise
A malicious `elementary-data==0.23.3` release was pushed to PyPI and GHCR after attackers exploited a GitHub Actions script-injection path, adding an interpreter-startup `.pth` infostealer.
- Bitwarden CLI npm 2026.4.0 Credential Stealer
Bitwarden confirmed that @bitwarden/cli@2026.4.0 was maliciously distributed through the npm CLI delivery path for a short April 22, 2026 window. JFrog and Socket analysis tied the package to bw_setup.js, bw1.js, Bun bootstrap, audit.checkmarx.cx exfiltration, GitHub fallback channels, and developer/CI credential theft.
- Xinference PyPI 2.6.x Import-Time Credential Exfiltration
JFrog reported that the legitimate PyPI package xinference shipped malicious versions 2.6.0, 2.6.1, and 2.6.2 with import-time code in xinference/__init__.py. The payload collected host and secret material into love.tar.gz and posted it to whereisitat.lucyatemysuperbox.space with header X-QT-SR: 14.
- Axios npm Package Compromise (UNC1069)
On March 31, 2026, the popular JavaScript HTTP client Axios was compromised when attackers hijacked a lead maintainer's npm account, publishing malicious versions containing a phantom dependency to drop a cross-platform Remote Access Trojan (RAT).
- Crypto Private Key Stealer Solana/Ethereum Typosquats
On March 24, 2026, threat actors targeted cryptocurrency developers on the npm registry by typosquatting common Solana and Ethereum libraries. The malicious packages silently harvested and exfiltrated wallet private keys to a Telegram Bot C2.
- LiteLLM Python SDK PyPI Hijacking & Cascading Trust Failure
On March 24, 2026, the popular LiteLLM Python package was compromised on PyPI. Attackers harvested PyPI publishing secrets from LiteLLM's CI/CD runner via a previously backdoored dependency, uploading malicious versions containing a python startup hook payload.
- Aqua Security Trivy CI/CD Pipeline & Tag Poisoning
On March 19, 2026, the widely adopted container vulnerability scanner Trivy was compromised in a major supply chain attack. Cybercrime group TeamPCP poisoned version tags to harvest and exfiltrate runner credentials.
- PyPI spellcheckpy Typosquatting RAT Campaign
Attackers published typosquatted versions of the popular pyspellchecker library to deliver a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) hidden inside compressed Basque dictionary files.
- semantic-types PyPI Solana Keypair Monkey Patch
Socket reported that semantic-types became malicious at version 0.1.5 and 0.1.6, with five Solana-themed PyPI packages pulling it transitively. The payload monkey-patched solders.keypair.Keypair constructors, encrypted Solana private keys with an RSA-2048 public key, and exfiltrated ciphertext through Solana Devnet SPL memo transactions.
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