Three node-ipc Versions Hide a Stealer Backdoor — and the Attacker Took Over a Dead Maintainer's Domain to Publish Them

Three published versions of node-ipc — a package with 822,000 weekly downloads — hide an obfuscated stealer backdoor that exfiltrates 90 categories of developer and cloud secrets over DNS. The attacker hijacked a lapsed maintainer domain to publish them.

OpenAI Is Rotating Every Code-Signing Certificate It Has — Mini Shai-Hulud Reached Two Employee Laptops

OpenAI confirmed two employee devices were compromised in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack, exposing code-signing certificates for its apps. OpenAI is rotating every certificate, and macOS users must update before June 12, 2026.

A CVSS 10.0 Cisco SD-WAN Auth Bypass Is Under Active Attack — and UAT-8616 Has Been in This Code Since 2023

Cisco disclosed a maximum-severity authentication bypass in Catalyst SD-WAN, actively exploited as a zero-day by UAT-8616 — the same actor that has targeted this service since 2023. CISA added it to KEV, and there are no workarounds.

A Telehealth Platform Lost 716,000 People's Health Data in Two Days — and Took Four Months to Say So

OpenLoop Health confirmed a January 2026 intrusion that exposed the names, birth dates, and medical information of 716,000 telehealth users. A threat actor called Stuckin2019 claims to hold data on 1.6 million. Disclosure came roughly four months after the breach.

Kimsuky's PebbleDash Now Hits Defense Sectors in Three Countries — And Its New Backdoor Was Coded With AI

Kaspersky found something unusual in a North Korean backdoor: comments that look written by an LLM, not a human. Combined with Kimsuky's expansion into defense targets across three countries, it is documented evidence that state malware development is borrowing AI.

Microsoft's Kazuar Analysis Shows Russia's Secret Blizzard Wants Your Signal Desktop Files

Microsoft's new Kazuar analysis names one capability that ties it to the other Russian Signal operation in the news: Kazuar steals Signal Desktop message files. Encryption protects the conversation in transit — not the database on a compromised laptop.

An AI Found an 18-Year-Old NGINX RCE in Six Hours — CVE-2026-42945 'NGINX Rift'

An autonomous AI was pointed at the NGINX source code and found a critical RCE that survived 18 years of human review — plus three more CVEs in the same six-hour session. NGINX runs a third of the internet's top sites. The discovery method is the bigger story.

Ghostwriter Now Geofences Its Phishing Lures — Only Ukrainian IPs Get the Malware

Ghostwriter built operational security into its phishing lure. Send the campaign's malicious PDF to a Ukrainian IP and it triggers the attack chain. Send it anywhere else — including to the analysts investigating it — and they get a harmless document.

Salt Typhoon Just Pivoted to Azerbaijani Oil and Gas — Chinese APT Targeting Now Follows Energy Geopolitics

Salt Typhoon spent three months inside an Azerbaijani oil and gas company — a target type it normally ignores. Bitdefender's assessment of why is the part that matters: Chinese APT targeting now follows energy geopolitics in real time.

A Spyware Investigator Turned a Signal Hijack Attempt Into a 13,500-Target Russian Campaign Map

Russian government hackers tried to hijack the Signal account of the wrong person. Donncha Ó Cearbhaill investigates spyware for a living — so he reverse-engineered the campaign and found himself one of 13,500+ targets. The 'snowball' methodology is the lesson.

RubyGems Just Shut Down New Signups After 'Hundreds' of Malicious Packages Hit the Registry

RubyGems temporarily turned off new signups after what its security partner called a major malicious attack — hundreds of packages, DDoS, spam, and exploits hitting at once. The halt is the response model defenders should remember.

Germany Warns China Is Close to an AI 'Superhacker' — and Building It in Secret

Germany's top cybersecurity official told lawmakers that China is close to building an AI model with superhacking capabilities — developed in secret. The warning lands a month after Anthropic gated Mythos. AI cyber capability is now great-power competition.