Glassworm Malware Targets Developers Through npm, PyPI, OpenVSX, and GitHub

Executive Summary A Cyber Security News report published on 27 May 2026 detailed an ongoing Glassworm malware campaign targeting software developers through trusted development platforms, including npm, PyPI, OpenVSX, and GitHub. The campaign first surfaced in October 2025 through malicious Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX extensions and has since expanded into Python repositories, React Native npm packages,…

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Inside the Account Fraud Economy: Q1 2026 Benchmarks for Retail, QSR, Airlines and Accommodation

Account fraud isn’t a one-off event, it’s an industry. Operators run shops, set prices, manage stock and respond to customers. They specialize, collaborate, and follow the money into whichever industries are paying out. For a retailer, it is a customer’s account quietly emptied of points, gift card credit and stored payment value. For a quick…

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ClickFix Campaign Uses Fake macOS Utilities to Deliver Infostealers

Executive Summary According to a report from the Microsoft Defender security research team published on 6 May 2026,an active “ClickFix” campaign is targeting macOS users through fake utility and troubleshooting lures. The campaign uses deceptive prompts masquerading as system fixes or macOS utilities to trick users into manually executing malicious terminal commands. In the past two…

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North Korea-Linked ScarCruft Supply Chain Attack on Gaming Platform Popular With Korean-Chinese Individuals

Executive Summary On 5 May 2026, ESET researchers reported that a North Korea-aligned threat group known as ScarCruft executed a supply chain attack against a video gaming platform serving ethnic Koreans in China’s Yanbian region, planting backdoors in both Windows and Android versions of the platform’s games to turn a trusted service into a covert espionage tool. Key Takeaways…

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Critical GitHub RCE Vulnerability CVE-2026-3854 Allows Arbitrary Commands

Executive Summary  On 20 April 2026 Wiz Research uncovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-3854) in GitHub’s internal git infrastructure affecting both GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server. By exploiting an injection flaw in GitHub’s internal protocol, any authenticated user could execute arbitrary commands on GitHub’s backend servers with a single git push command – using nothing but a standard git client.   Affected…

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