The npm incident frightened everyone, but ended up being nothing to fret about

Disaster was averted after widely used open-source packages were compromised via social engineering.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 81 vulnerabilities, none actively exploited

The company is ahead of pace, disclosing about 100 more vulnerabilities at this point in the year than it did in 2024, according to a researcher.

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Treasury Department targets Southeast Asia scam hubs with sanctions

Cybercrime hubs in Southeast Asia scammed Americans out of at least $10 billion last year, a 66% increase from 2023, officials said.

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Salesloft Drift security incident started with undetected GitHub access

The company said a threat actor accessed and snooped around its account for months, then stole OAuth tokens for Drift integrations from its cloud environment.

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Sitecore zero-day vulnerability springs up from exposed machine key

The actively exploited defect, triggered by an attacker’s use of a publicly available sample machine key, underscores the vendor and customers’ poor configuration practices.

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Streameast, world’s largest pirated live sports network, shut down by Egyptian authorities

An antipiracy coalition of entertainment companies applauded the takedown. The network’s two operators were arrested at their residences in Egypt.

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Google patches two Android zero-days, 120 defects total in September security update

The critical, actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities affect the Linux kernel and Android runtime.

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Salesloft Drift attacks hit Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler

Salesloft said the AI chat agent for sales and leads will be taken offline, as investigations into the attack spree widen and reveal more victims.

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Prolific Russian ransomware operator living in California enjoys rare leniency awaiting trial

Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko allegedly committed ransomware attacks from 2018 to 2022. He’s been out on bond since his arrest almost a year ago, despite multiple run-ins with police.

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Salesloft Drift compromised en masse, impacting all third-party integrations

Researchers said Google Workspace customers were hit, and noted other platforms are impacted as well. Fresh evidence proves impact was not limited to Salesforce, as Salesloft previously claimed.

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