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Iranian hackers are targeting American critical infrastructure, US agencies warn

8 April 2026 at 03:59
A joint FBI, NSA, and CISA advisory warns that Iranian hackers have "escalated" their tactics in response to the ongoing U.S.-Israel war with Iran.

Russian government hackers broke into thousands of home routers to steal passwords

8 April 2026 at 01:01
Fancy Bear, also known as APT28, has taken over thousands of residential home routers to steal passwords and authentication tokens in a wide-ranging espionage operation.

Trump administration plans to cut cybersecurity agency’s budget by $700 million

7 April 2026 at 21:50
The budget proposal would force CISA to operate with a significantly lower budget than previous years, citing the government's claims that the election misinformation programs were used to "target the President."
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  • Anthropic Accidentally Exposes Claude Code Source via npm Source Map File Steef-Jan Wiggers
    Anthropic's Claude Code CLI had its full TypeScript source exposed after a source map file was accidentally included in version 2.1.88 of its npm package. The 512,000-line codebase was archived to GitHub within hours. Anthropic called it a packaging error caused by human error. The leak revealed unreleased features, internal model codenames, and multi-agent orchestration architecture. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
     

Anthropic Accidentally Exposes Claude Code Source via npm Source Map File

7 April 2026 at 16:00

Anthropic's Claude Code CLI had its full TypeScript source exposed after a source map file was accidentally included in version 2.1.88 of its npm package. The 512,000-line codebase was archived to GitHub within hours. Anthropic called it a packaging error caused by human error. The leak revealed unreleased features, internal model codenames, and multi-agent orchestration architecture.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

After fighting malware for decades, this cybersecurity veteran is now hacking drones

4 April 2026 at 21:00
Mikko HyppΓΆnen is one of the most recognizable faces of the cybersecurity industry. After fighting computer viruses, worms, and malware, for more than 35 years, he tells TechCrunch why he is now working on systems to stop killer drones.

Europe’s cyber agency blames hacking gangs for massive data breach and leak

3 April 2026 at 23:50
CERT-EU blamed the cybercrime group TeamPCP for the recent hack on the European Commission, and said the notorious ShinyHunters gang was responsible for leaking the stolen data online.

Open Source Security Tool Trivy Hit by Supply Chain Attack, Prompting Urgent Industry Response

3 April 2026 at 20:00

A major security incident affecting the widely used open source vulnerability scanner Trivy has exposed critical weaknesses in software supply chain security, after maintainers confirmed that a malicious release was briefly distributed to users.

By Craig Risi
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  • Axios npm Package Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Daniel Curtis
    On March 31, 2026, two versions of the Axios library were compromised and found to contain a Remote Access Trojan. The malicious packages were published through a hijacked maintainer account. The Axios team is investigating how the breach occurred and has deprecated the affected versions. Security experts emphasize the need for better dependency management. By Daniel Curtis
     

Axios npm Package Compromised in Supply Chain Attack

2 April 2026 at 21:53

On March 31, 2026, two versions of the Axios library were compromised and found to contain a Remote Access Trojan. The malicious packages were published through a hijacked maintainer account. The Axios team is investigating how the breach occurred and has deprecated the affected versions. Security experts emphasize the need for better dependency management.

By Daniel Curtis

Convicted spyware chief hints that Greece’s government was behind dozens of phone hacks

26 March 2026 at 05:19
The spyware founder's comments are the most direct suggestion yet from anyone inside Intellexa that the Mitsotakis government authorized the hacking of dozens of phones belonging to senior Greek government ministers, opposition leaders, military officials, and journalists.

Russia arrests alleged owner of cybercrime forum LeakBase, report says

26 March 2026 at 00:36
Russian state-owned media reported that police in Russia arrested the administrator of LeakBase, a large hacking forum.

The FBI is investigating malware hidden inside games hosted on Steam

13 March 2026 at 22:55
The FBI believes a series of video games published on Steam in the last two years were embedded with malware by the same hacker.

DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says

11 March 2026 at 04:09
A whistleblower is accusing a former DOGE member of stealing a large number of Americans’ personal data while he was working at the Social Security Administration, with the plan of using it at his new job.

US military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine

11 March 2026 at 01:44
Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs.
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