A backdoored Axios npm package delivered a RAT - another reminder that even trusted libraries can turn into attack vectors. Verify before you trust. 📦⚠️ #OpenSourceSecurity #SupplyChainRisk
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/axios_npm_backdoor_rat/
Hegseth’s War On Anthropic Encounters The First Amendment
How a Routine Security Review Turned Into a Full Supply Chain Risk Discovery
This article discusses an XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) vulnerability within an enterprise application, which led to the exposure of its entire supply chain. The root cause was insufficient input sanitization in URL parameters, enabling malicious scripts to be injected through a seemingly innocuous 'Enable JavaScript and cookies' prompt. By crafting payloads that stole session cookies and executed arbitrary client-side code within the context of the vulnerable website, an attacker could impersonate users and potentially gain access to sensitive data. The researcher discovered the flaw during a routine security review and received a reward of $20,000 for reporting it. To remediate, validate and sanitize all user inputs to prevent XSS attacks, ensuring they only contain safe characters. Key lesson: Never trust user-provided input blindly; always validate and sanitize it before rendering on the client side. #BugBounty #Cybersecurity #XSS #InputSanitization #SupplyChainRisk
This week’s cybersecurity landscape brought a wave of critical vulnerabilities being weaponised faster than ever, leaving little time for defenders to respond.
#Cybersecurity #AIsecurity #NationStateIntrusion #SupplyChainRisk
https://cybernewsweekly.substack.com/p/cybersecurity-news-review-week-13-088
Over 1,000 cloud environments were infected following a supply-chain compromise — one weak link, massive blast radius. Cloud scale amplifies everything. ☁️💥 #SupplyChainRisk #CloudSecurity
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/1k_cloud_environments_infected_following/