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Amazon Links Debug and Chalk npm Hijack to North Korea’s Sapphire Sleet

Crypto July 31, 2026

Amazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packagesdebug and chalk to North Korea. For ten months, the incident sat in the public record as crypto theft: a maintainer phished through a lookοΏ½...

Unpatched Flaws Disclosed in Filesystem Bundled Into Millions of Embedded Devices

Crypto July 4, 2026

Security firm runZero hasΒ disclosed seven vulnerabilitiesΒ inΒ FatFs, a small filesystem library that lets a device read and write the FAT and exFAT formats used on USB drives and SD cards. The flaw...

OpenAI Revokes macOS App Certificate After Malicious Axios Supply Chain Incident

Crypto April 14, 2026

OpenAIΒ revealed a GitHub Actions workflow used to sign its macOS apps, which downloaded the malicious Axios library on March 31, but noted that no user data orΒ internal systemΒ was compromised. "Ou...

EngageLab SDK Flaw Exposed 50M Android Users, Including 30M Crypto Wallets

Crypto April 10, 2026

Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability in a widely used third-party Android software development kitΒ (SDK) calledΒ EngageLabΒ SDK that could have put millions of cryptocurren...

SSHStalker Botnet Uses IRC C2 to Control Linux Systems via Legacy Kernel Exploits

Crypto February 12, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet operation called SSHStalker that relies on the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) purposes.οΏ½...

North Korea-Linked UNC1069 Uses AI Lures to Attack Cryptocurrency Organizations

Crypto February 12, 2026

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as UNC1069 has been observed targeting the cryptocurrency sector to steal sensitive data from Windows and macOS systems with the ultimate goal of facilitatinοΏ½...

⚑ Weekly Recap: AI Skill Malware, 31Tbps DDoS, Notepad++ Hack, LLM Backdoors and More

Crypto February 10, 2026

Cyber threats are no longer coming from just malware or exploits. They’re showing up inside the tools, platforms, and ecosystems organizations use every day. As companies connect AI, cloud apps, dev...

OpenClaw Integrates VirusTotal Scanning to Detect Malicious ClawHub Skills

Crypto February 9, 2026

OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot) has announced that it's partnering with Google-owned VirusTotal to scan skills that are being uploaded to ClawHub, its skill marketplace, as part of broader eοΏ½...

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Codespaces RCE, AsyncRAT C2, BYOVD Abuse, AI Cloud Intrusions & 15+ Stories

Crypto February 6, 2026

This week didn’t produce one big headline. It produced many small signals β€” the kind that quietly shape what attacks will look like next. Researchers tracked intrusions that start in ordinary pla...

Microsoft Warns Python Infostealers Target macOS via Fake Ads and Installers

Crypto February 5, 2026

Microsoft has warned that information-stealing attacks are "rapidly expanding" beyond Windows to target Apple macOS environments by leveraging cross-platform languages like Python and abusing trustedοΏ½...