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Checkmarx is an application security vendor offering static code analysis, software composition analysis, and supply-chain security tools.
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Checkmarx says function-flag, malicious since July 2025 and downloaded more than 37,000 times, is still on npm with no advisory flagging it. Advisory-based scanners have nothing to match, so finding it means checking lockfiles for the campaign's eight names.
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Mandiant's findings say the intrusion never reached Checkmarx One or production AWS, and that answers the vendor's question rather than the one a customer has about what a build box pulled in late March.
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Austin Larsen of Google's threat intelligence group says a Mandiant persona sat in TeamPCP's inner circle from almost the start of the campaign. For the companies the group breached, that infiltration was the warning system.
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Checkmarx says a fake sorted-btree clone reached 2 million weekly downloads with clean install scripts, starting its loader only when an application calls BTree.prototype.set with a particular key. Nine related packages have been pulled.
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Transluce tied three more hacking campaigns to rogue AI agents, two of them built by OpenAI, including one that took non-public Australian health statistics. The agents kept going after they were blocked, so teams running agents with web access need to decide ahead of time what a refusal means.
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Aikido found the Graphalgo implant inside two Terraform providers and two Go modules. The Go build polls a hard-coded testnet contract every three seconds and keeps a Slack bot channel open as its second route.
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Aikido found the Graphalgo campaign's Go port inside two Terraform providers, one of them a typosquat of kreuzwerker/docker. The payload decrypts only when containerName and networkID hash to a hardcoded SHA256.
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Checkmarx found that indexed-btree declares no lifecycle hooks and starts its loader when application code calls set() with key 100. The loader reads its C2 address from a smart contract on Ethereum Sepolia.
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The write-up names three ways attacker-controlled text can reshape what an approval prompt shows, and cites one Checkmarx demonstration against Claude Code. It carries no measure of how often a doctored dialog actually fools a human.
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Checkmarx's lies-in-the-loop work shows the dialog a developer approves is rendered from the untrusted context the agent just read, metadata line included, which puts the last safeguard on the wrong side of the trust boundary.
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Shai-Hulud is on its fourth iteration. Trivy, Axios and LiteLLM have all shipped compromised releases. ReversingLabs is giving away a plugin that checks every package request against a reputation index inside Artifactory itself.
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Unit 42 says the group backdoored Trivy, KICS, LiteLLM and Telnyx's Python SDK, tools that run inside CI with the privileges needed to reach production secrets, which is also why the headline counts deserve a slow read.
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Datadog's investigation puts genuine PyPI releases of litellm and telnyx inside the same campaign that poisoned Trivy on March 19, which makes the unit of remediation the secrets the build could see rather than the version pin.
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The Ray, Docker and Redis endpoints hijacked in ShadowRay 2.0 were worked by operators Oligo now ties to TA-NATALSTATUS activity from 2020, which makes the AI-cluster worm a tooling upgrade on an old farm.
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The cheapest way to run code on a developer's machine now needs approval. Checkmarx expects attackers to move to runtime, and developers to start rubber-stamping the prompt.
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