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This threat intelligence report highlights multiple high-profile breaches, including 7-Eleven and GitHub, alongside the active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, Trend Micro, and Drupal. It also details emerging threats such as the Kali365 phishing kit, AI-driven prompt injection attacks, the Nimbus Manticore IRGC-linked campaign deploying the MiniFast backdoor, and a supply chain attack on Laravel Lang packages.
A massive supply chain attack compromised over 700 historical versions of Laravel Lang packages, injecting an RCE backdoor via Composer's autoloader. The backdoor delivers a sophisticated, cross-platform PHP information stealer designed to harvest cloud credentials, CI/CD secrets, browser data, and local configuration files.
A widespread supply chain attack compromised hundreds of GitHub repositories by injecting malicious postinstall scripts into package.json files and GitHub Actions workflows. The payload uses curl to download a remote Linux binary disguised as an SSH daemon, primarily targeting PHP projects that bundle JavaScript build tools to bypass standard Composer dependency reviews.
A vulnerability in Composer causes it to inadvertently log GitHub Actions tokens and GitHub App installation tokens to stderr when token validation fails. This was triggered by a recent GitHub token format change, exposing credentials in CI/CD logs and requiring immediate updates to Composer versions 2.9.8, 2.2.28 LTS, or 1.10.28.
The Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack campaign has expanded into the PHP ecosystem by compromising the widely used intercom/intercom-php package on Packagist. The malicious artifact abuses Composer plugin execution to download the Bun runtime and execute an obfuscated JavaScript payload designed to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive credentials from developer environments and CI/CD pipelines.
Socket.dev has launched an experimental PHP reachability analysis tool designed to reduce vulnerability alert fatigue. By performing deep static analysis of function-level call graphs, including complex PHP dispatch patterns, the tool determines whether known CVEs in dependencies are actually executable within an application's context.
Security researchers identified six malicious Composer packages on Packagist masquerading as OphimCMS themes. These packages contain trojanized JavaScript that executes client-side attacks, including URL exfiltration, ad injection, and redirects to gambling sites operated by the OFAC-sanctioned FUNNULL network.
Socket's Threat Research Team discovered a supply chain attack involving malicious Packagist packages that deploy an encrypted Remote Access Trojan (RAT). The packages, disguised as Laravel utilities, execute automatically upon application boot or class autoloading, granting the attacker full remote shell access, file manipulation, and system reconnaissance capabilities across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments.
