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OpenAI Confirms Breach via Mini Shai-Hulud npm Supply Chain Attack
OpenAI confirmed two employee devices were compromised through a supply chain attack, exposing code-signing certificates for macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android apps.
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node-ipc npm Package Hid Credential Stealer Across Three Versions
Socket and StepSecurity found stealer backdoors in three node-ipc npm versions targeting 90 cloud and developer credential categories via an unknown new publisher account.
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PraisonAI CVE-2026-44338 Exploited 3h44m After Public Disclosure
Attackers began exploiting a missing-authentication flaw in PraisonAI's Flask API server 3 hours and 44 minutes after the CVE-2026-44338 advisory was published on May 11.
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Burst Statistics CVE-2026-8181 Draws 7,400 Attacks in 24 Hours
Wordfence blocked over 7,400 attacks against CVE-2026-8181 in the Burst Statistics WordPress plugin within 24 hours of disclosure, with 115,000 sites still unpatched.
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NGINX CVE-2026-42945 Under Active Exploitation After F5 Patch Drop
VulnCheck confirmed in-the-wild exploitation of NGINX CVE-2026-42945, a critical heap overflow, within days of F5's patch; 5.7 million servers are exposed.
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Leaked Shai-Hulud Code Fuels npm Infostealer Wave Targeting Devs
Shai-Hulud malware source code fueled a wave of poisoned npm packages in the @antv ecosystem, including echarts-for-react with 1.1 million weekly downloads.
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 Closes with $1.3M in Zero-Day Prizes
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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 Closes with $1.3M in Zero-Day Prizes
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 concluded with $1.3 million in prizes, including the first successful exploits of AI agent platforms in the competition's history.
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GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack Hijacks actions-cool Tags
Attackers hijacked two actions-cool GitHub Actions workflows via imposter commits, stealing CI/CD credentials from all pipelines that ran them by version tag.
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18-Year NGINX Flaw CVE-2026-42945 Enables Unauthenticated RCE
Security researcher depthfirst disclosed CVE-2026-42945, an 18-year heap overflow in NGINX's rewrite module enabling unauthenticated RCE. CVSS 9.2 critical.
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FamousSparrow APT Hit Azerbaijani Energy Firm in Three Waves
Bitdefender researchers documented three consecutive FamousSparrow intrusions against an Azerbaijani oil and gas firm between December 2025 and February 2026.