Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious extensions in the Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace that are designed to deploy ransomware that’s under development to its users. The extensions, named “ahban.shiba” and “ahban.cychelloworld,” have since been taken down by the marketplace maintainers. Both the extensions, per ReversingLabs, incorporate code that’s designed to invoke a PowerShell command, which
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A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Next.js React framework that could be potentially exploited to bypass authorization checks under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-29927, carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. “Next.js uses an internal header x-middleware-subrequest to prevent recursive requests from triggering infinite loops,” Next.js said in an advisory. “It
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The supply chain attack involving the GitHub Action “tj-actions/changed-files” started as a highly-targeted attack against one of Coinbase’s open-source projects, before evolving into something more widespread in scope. “The payload was focused on exploiting the public CI/CD flow of one of their open source projects – agentkit, probably with the purpose of leveraging it for
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The U.S. Treasury Department has announced that it’s removing sanctions against Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer service that has been accused of aiding the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group to launder their ill-gotten proceeds. “Based on the Administration’s review of the novel legal and policy issues raised by use of financial sanctions against financial and commercial
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