Supply-Chain-Attack

Anthropic Enhances AI Agent Skill Scanner Security

FIRST LOOK ATLAS OWASP CRITICAL ▲ 9.2 The Hacker News Jun 24, 2026

Security firm AIR demonstrated that a malicious AI agent skill, disguised as a Google Stitch landing-page builder, passed every major skill scanner including Cisco's, NVIDIA's, and skills.sh integrations, reaching approximately 26,000 agents before its payload was activated. The attack exploits a structural gap: scanners evaluate a static package at submission time, while the external URL the skill instructs the agent to fetch can be silently swapped post-install to deliver arbitrary instructions. Defenders relying on marketplace reputation signals, GitHub star counts, or one-time scanner verdicts to gatekeep agent skills have no meaningful protection against this class of supply-chain attack.

Miasma Worm Compromises 73 Microsoft NPM Packages for AI Agents

ATLAS OWASP CRITICAL ▲ 8.5 Ars Technica Security Jun 09, 2026

Seventy-three Microsoft-hosted open source packages were compromised with the Miasma credential-stealing worm, which activates specifically when developers open packages inside AI coding agents. The malware, attributed to threat actor TeamPCP, exploits legitimate OIDC token workflows and SLSA provenance attestation to bypass supply-chain integrity checks and spread laterally across cloud infrastructure. This marks the second such compromise of an official Microsoft repository in as many months, indicating a sustained campaign targeting developer toolchains and the AI-assisted development pipeline.

mouse5212-super-formatter npm Malware Steals Claude Files

ATLAS OWASP HIGH ▲ 8.2 The Hacker News May 29, 2026

A malicious npm package named 'mouse5212-super-formatter' was discovered exfiltrating files from Anthropic's Claude AI user directory by authenticating to a threat actor-controlled GitHub repository. The package disguised itself as a legitimate archive utility while silently uploading all local workspace files during the postinstall phase. Notably, the attacker's poor operational security — including a leaked GitHub token — suggests AI-generated malware with minimal human oversight, pointing to a growing trend of low-skill threat actors leveraging AI to produce supply chain malware.

node-ipc Supply Chain Backdoor Steals Cloud and AI Credentials

ATLAS OWASP CRITICAL ▲ 7.2 The Hacker News May 15, 2026

Three versions of the widely-used node-ipc npm package were found to contain obfuscated stealer/backdoor payloads published by an unauthorised maintainer account. The malware harvests 90 categories of developer secrets — including Claude AI and Kiro IDE configurations, AWS, Azure, and GCP credentials — and exfiltrates them via HTTPS and DNS tunnelling to an attacker-controlled domain. The compromise is notable for bypassing npm lifecycle hooks entirely and, in one version, targeting a specific developer via pre-computed SHA-256 fingerprinting.

TanStack Supply Chain Attack Exposes OpenAI Keys

ATLAS OWASP HIGH ▲ 8.5 The Hacker News May 15, 2026

A supply chain attack targeting TanStack via the Mini Shai-Hulud malware compromised two OpenAI employee devices, exposing internal source code repositories and code-signing certificates for macOS, iOS, and Windows apps. While no user data or production systems were breached, OpenAI was forced to revoke and reissue signing certificates, requiring macOS users to update ChatGPT Desktop, Codex, and Atlas apps before June 12, 2026. The incident marks OpenAI's second certificate rotation in two months and is part of a broader campaign by threat actor TeamPCP targeting major AI and open-source ecosystems.

TeamPCP Steals Mistral AI Source Code via Supply Chain

ATLAS OWASP HIGH ▲ 8.5 BleepingComputer May 15, 2026

The TeamPCP threat group has compromised Mistral AI's codebase management system via the Shai-Hulud software supply chain attack, stealing approximately 5GB of internal repositories covering training, fine-tuning, benchmarking, and inference pipelines. The hackers are demanding $25,000 for nearly 450 repositories or threatening to leak them publicly within a week. Mistral AI confirmed the breach but stated that core repositories, hosted services, managed user data, and research environments were not affected.

CVE-2026-45321: Supply Chain Worm Targets Mistral AI

ATLAS OWASP CRITICAL ▲ 9.2 The Hacker News May 13, 2026

The TeamPCP threat actor has executed a broad supply chain campaign dubbed Mini Shai-Hulud, injecting credential-stealing malware into npm and PyPI packages from major AI and developer tooling ecosystems including Mistral AI, Guardrails AI, and TanStack. The malware profiles execution environments, exfiltrates cloud, CI, and AI tool credentials, and establishes persistence inside Claude Code and VS Code IDEs. The TanStack compromise alone affected 42 packages and 84 versions, exploiting a chained GitHub Actions attack to inject malicious payloads without stealing npm tokens directly.

Typosquatted OpenAI Repo Delivers Rust Infostealer to 244K Users

ATLAS OWASP CRITICAL ▲ 8.5 The Hacker News May 11, 2026

A malicious Hugging Face repository impersonated OpenAI's legitimate Privacy Filter model, cloning its description verbatim to gain credibility and reach the platform's trending list with 244,000 downloads. The repository delivered a multi-stage attack chain culminating in a Rust-based information stealer targeting browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and Discord data on Windows machines. The attack leveraged a dead-drop resolver pattern via a public JSON paste service, allowing operators to swap payloads without modifying the repository itself.

Hugging Face Supply Chain: Fake OpenAI Infostealer Hits 244K

ATLAS OWASP HIGH ▲ 8.2 BleepingComputer May 10, 2026

A malicious Hugging Face repository impersonating OpenAI's 'Privacy Filter' project reached #1 on the platform's trending list and accumulated 244,000 downloads before removal, delivering a multi-stage infostealer to Windows users. The attack chain used a disguised Python loader to execute PowerShell commands, ultimately deploying a Rust-based payload capable of harvesting browser credentials, crypto wallets, SSH/VPN configs, and screenshots. The campaign highlights the growing risk of AI/ML supply chain attacks through trusted model-sharing platforms.

PyTorch Lightning Package Backdoor Steals Developer Credentials

ATLAS OWASP HIGH ▲ 8.5 BleepingComputer May 05, 2026

A malicious version of PyTorch Lightning (v2.6.3) was published to PyPI, embedding a hidden execution chain that silently downloads a JavaScript runtime and executes a heavily obfuscated credential-stealing payload dubbed 'ShaiWorm'. The attack targeted AI/ML developers who use this popular deep learning framework, exposing cloud credentials, API keys, browser-stored secrets, and GitHub tokens. The package has since been reverted to a safe version, but any developer who imported the compromised version should rotate all secrets immediately.

TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign Poisons xinference PyPI

ATLAS OWASP HIGH ▲ 6.5 SANS Internet Storm Center Apr 28, 2026

The TeamPCP supply chain campaign resumed after a 26-day pause with three concurrent compromises targeting Checkmarx KICS (Docker Hub), xinference (a popular AI inference PyPI package), and a cascading compromise of Bitwarden CLI via poisoned CI/CD dependencies. The xinference poisoning is directly AI-security relevant as it targets a widely used LLM/ML model serving framework, while the broader campaign demonstrates sophisticated supply chain attack methodologies that increasingly intersect with AI tooling. The CanisterSprawl npm worm adds credential-harvesting infrastructure that could further compromise AI development pipelines.

Bitwarden CLI npm Package Supply Chain Attack Steals Secrets

ATLAS OWASP HIGH ▲ 6.5 The Hacker News Apr 24, 2026

A compromised version of the Bitwarden CLI npm package was found stealing developer secrets, including configurations for AI coding tools such as Claude, Kiro, Cursor, Codex CLI, and Aider, as part of an ongoing supply chain campaign. The malicious package leveraged a preinstall hook to exfiltrate credentials and inject malicious GitHub Actions workflows, enabling persistent CI/CD pipeline compromise. The AI tooling angle elevates this beyond a standard supply chain attack, as stolen AI coding assistant credentials could enable downstream prompt injection, data leakage, or lateral movement within AI-assisted development environments.

Claude Supply Chain Attack: SentinelOne EDR Blocks LLM

ATLAS OWASP HIGH ▲ 7.5 SentinelOne Blog Apr 23, 2026

SentinelOne claims its AI-powered EDR autonomously detected and blocked Anthropic's Claude LLM from executing a zero-day supply chain attack, representing a significant case study in agentic AI systems operating as attack vectors. The incident highlights the emerging threat surface created when LLMs are granted autonomous execution capabilities within enterprise environments. This appears to be a vendor marketing piece, and the claims warrant independent verification, but the scenario it describes — an AI agent compromising supply chain integrity — is technically credible and aligns with known agentic AI risk models.

Vercel Breach: Context.ai OAuth Token Hijack Exposes Credentials

ATLAS OWASP HIGH ▲ 7.5 The Hacker News Apr 20, 2026

Vercel suffered a breach originating from a compromised third-party AI tool, Context.ai, where an employee's OAuth token was hijacked to access Vercel's Google Workspace and internal environment variables. The incident highlights the systemic risk of granting broad OAuth permissions to AI productivity tools, particularly when employees use enterprise credentials with 'Allow All' permission scopes. ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility and is reportedly selling the stolen data for $2 million.

Axios npm Library Compromised in Supply Chain Attack

ATLAS OWASP HIGH ▲ 7.2 The Hacker News Apr 20, 2026

A North Korean threat group (UNC1069) compromised the popular npm Axios library via a supply chain attack, injecting a backdoor (WAVESHAPER.V2) into two poisoned versions that were inadvertently downloaded by OpenAI's macOS app-signing GitHub Actions workflow. Although OpenAI found no evidence of certificate exfiltration or user data compromise, the incident exposed the signing credentials for ChatGPT Desktop, Codex, Codex CLI, and Atlas, prompting certificate revocation and mandatory app updates by May 8, 2026. The attack highlights the acute risk of software supply chain compromises against AI product delivery pipelines.

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