RedC2 4.0: Trojanized npm Packages Ship an AI-Steered Linux Backdoor
Fourteen npm packages posing as calendar and streak-tracking utilities were caught dropping RedC2 4.0, a commercial C2 framework whose new "Red Agent" layer lets operators issue plain-language commands instead of hand-crafting beacon syntax.
npm's Keyv and Cacheable Hijacked in 'Mini Shai-Hulud' Supply-Chain Worm
A hijacked maintainer account let attackers trojan keyv, cacheable-request and flat-cache — reusing the same Shai-Hulud toolkit seen on PyPI and npm earlier in 2026.
Fake Paysafe, Skrill and Neteller SDKs on npm and PyPI Steal CI/CD Secrets
Seventeen packages impersonating payment-provider SDKs returned convincing fake success responses while quietly harvesting environment-variable secrets to an ngrok-tunnelled command-and-control server.
Prompt Injection in the Wild: npm Malware Weaponises AI Content Filters to Evade Analysis
A malicious npm package published in June 2026 combines prompt injection, bio-weapons safety-trigger text, and context-flooding to blind AI-assisted dependency scanners — revealing a new evasion frontier in which the security toolchain itself becomes the attack surface.