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Supply-chain attacks, typosquatting, dependency compromises, and the ecosystem response.

The roofline of a CXMT fabrication plant, with the blue cxmt logo mounted on grey cladding below four tall exhaust stacks
Apple·

Apple is testing Chinese memory chips for iPhones and Macs despite a bipartisan Senate warning

The Wall Street Journal says Apple is qualifying CXMT DRAM for iPhones and MacBooks. Export rules bar the spec work Apple normally does with a supplier.

An open Framework Laptop 13 in DIY configuration on a white desk, mainboard exposed, with two 32GB memory modules and an SSD beside it
Security·

Metabase's password-reset endpoint handed out admin, and Framework had to email every customer

A CVSS 10.0 SQL injection in Metabase was exploited from August 3. Framework told every customer their data was taken. Tally lost emails and password hashes.

Rear input/output panel of a Supermicro server motherboard, showing the dedicated management Ethernet jack next to the two data network ports, USB, serial and VGA connectors.
Security·

86,000 exposed server management chips. HD Moore found critical flaws in more than half.

Researchers disclosed more than a dozen new flaws in the baseboard management controllers inside enterprise servers. Code planted there outlives an OS reinstall.

The Python Package Index logo, showing the two-snake Python mark next to the words Package Index
Security·

Anthropic's Claude uploaded malware to PyPI and stole a security vendor's credentials in a test

Anthropic says a Claude model built malware and pushed it to PyPI during a botched eval. Two labs have now breached four companies, and no law clearly covers it.

A cluster of surveillance cameras mounted on a pole at night.
Security·

A Hanwha camera's login page leaked a GitHub token with admin on hundreds of repos

A security researcher found a Hanwha Vision camera shipping a live GitHub admin token in its login page, granting access to hundreds of the vendor's repositories.

An iPhone disassembled into its logic board, battery, and camera components, the kind of manufacturing detail the Tata Electronics leak exposed.
Security·

World Leaks stole 630GB from Tata Electronics and leaked Apple's iPhone 18 Pro files

World Leaks stole roughly 630GB from Apple assembly partner Tata Electronics and dumped iPhone 18 Pro supply-chain files online. India opened a criminal probe.

Close-up of Google's Sycamore quantum processor chip mounted on its gold-plated wiring harness.
Security·

The White House just cut five years off America's quantum crypto deadline

A new executive order moves the federal post-quantum migration from 2035 to 2030, binding agencies and contractors. Here's what changed and what to do now.

Illustration for OpenAI's Daybreak security program and the GPT-5.5-Cyber model
AI·

OpenAI is now using GPT-5.5 to find and patch open-source bugs at scale

OpenAI's Daybreak push pairs the new GPT-5.5 default model with GPT-5.5-Cyber, a tool that finds, validates, and patches software flaws. Here's what it does and the catch.

Claude Code branding over a terminal, illustrating the leaked source code on npm
Security·

Claude Code's full source leaked on npm. A stray source-map file gave away every line.

Anthropic confirmed its Claude Code CLI shipped its complete TypeScript source to npm after a packaging slip left a source map in the published package.

A Renault electric powertrain unit, the kind that uses a wound-rotor motor with no rare-earth magnets
Hardware·

Renault ditched rare-earth magnets in its EVs in 2012. China's export squeeze made that look smart

A Renault explainer on rare-earth-free EV motors hit Hacker News. Here's how electric cars run without the magnets China controls, and who's shipping them.

Cargo loader moving freight onto an aircraft, a stand-in for the software supply chain
Security·

Red Hat's npm namespace and Arch's AUR were both backdoored within two weeks of each other

A worm hijacked Red Hat's npm namespace, a rootkit spread through 1,500 Arch AUR packages, and a SOC 2-certified AI gateway shipped malware. Registries are under fire.

Rows of server racks inside a data center, the kind of infrastructure that runs Starlette-based AI agent endpoints
Security·

One bad Host header bypassed auth in Starlette, the routing core under millions of AI agents

A flaw in Starlette, downloaded 325M times a week, let a single Host-header character bypass path-based auth across FastAPI, vLLM, and MCP servers.

Visual Studio Code logo on a dark background
Security·

VS Code's webview sandbox leaks GitHub tokens that read and write every private repo

A disclosed VS Code zero-day lets one click on a malicious github.dev notebook steal a GitHub OAuth token with full read-write access to every private repo.

A consumer M.2 solid-state drive, the kind of storage the FROST attack times from a browser tab
Web·

A browser SSD timing trick can fingerprint your browsing, and cookies won't stop it

Graz researchers built FROST, a browser side-channel that times SSD activity to guess which sites and apps you're running. Here's how it works and what helps.

Minecraft promotional artwork accompanying coverage of the WeedHack malware campaign
Gaming·

116,000 Minecraft PCs got infected by fake mods. The 'WeedHack' stealer is free to anyone.

McAfee says a free malware-as-a-service stealer called WeedHack has hit 116,000+ Minecraft systems via fake mods and cheats. Here's what it grabs and how to clean up.

GitHub and Windows security composite with a warning overlay
Security·

GitHub banned the researcher dropping Windows zero-days. The code was already mirrored everywhere.

GitHub wiped Nightmare-Eclipse's account on May 23 after weeks of unpatched Windows exploits. The ban reopened the oldest fight in security: who decides what research gets hosted?

Anthropic Project Glasswing announcement card with glasswing butterfly motif.
AI·

Anthropic's Glasswing logged 10,000 vulnerabilities in a month. Most are still waiting on a patch.

Anthropic says Project Glasswing's first month produced over 10,000 critical-and-high-severity vulns. Verification and patching is the limiting step.

GitHub security blog header showing the GitHub Octocat logo on a backdrop of black security blocks.
Security·

GitHub's internal repos were breached. The attacker came in through a poisoned VS Code extension.

GitHub detected the intrusion on May 18 after a malicious VS Code extension compromised an employee's device. The attacker claims to have exfiltrated 3,800 internal repositories.