Security researchers have uncovered a supply chain attack involving three malicious npm packages—sw-cur, sw-cur1, and aiide-cur—that target macOS installations of the Cursor AI IDE.

A malicious Python package named discordpydebug was uploaded to PyPI, posing as a debugging tool for Discord bot developers. Despite lacking a README or documentation, it was downloaded over 11,000 times.

A new supply chain attack has been uncovered targeting Telegram bot developers via typosquatted npm packages. These malicious packages mimic the legitimate `node-telegram-bot-api` library.

A malicious npm package, @naderabdi/merchant-advcash, masquerading as a legitimate Advcash (Volet) payment integration, was discovered to contain a stealthy reverse shell. The payload activates only during a successful payment transaction.

These latest malware samples employ hexadecimal string encoding to evade automated detection systems and manual code audits, signaling a variation in the threat actors’ obfuscation techniques.

The Socket research team recently discovered a malicious Python package on PyPI named disgrasya, which contains a fully automated carding script targeting WooCommerce stores.

North Korea’s Lazarus Group continues to infiltrate the npm ecosystem, deploying six new malicious packages designed to compromise developer environments, steal credentials, extract cryptocurrency data, and deploy a backdoor.

Disguised as a simple utility for Python sets, the set-utils package mimics widely used libraries like python-utils (712M+ downloads) and utils (23.5M+ downloads). This compromised package grants attackers unauthorized access to Ethereum wallets.

Although the automslc package purports to offer music automation and metadata retrieval, it covertly bypasses Deezer’s access restrictions by embedding hardcoded credentials and communicating with an external C2 server.

Socket researchers discovered a malicious typosquat package in the Go ecosystem, impersonating the widely used BoltDB database module (github.com/boltdb/bolt), a tool trusted by many organizations including Shopify and Heroku.