Researchers identified a universal bucket hijacking technique affecting major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) that allows attackers to silently exfiltrate data streams. By exploiting the global uniqueness of bucket names, an attacker with deletion privileges can delete a target bucket and recreate it in their own environment, seamlessly rerouting logs, backups, and messages without requiring granular configuration update permissions.
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The Global Namespace Risk: Universal Bucket Hijacking Technique for Cloud Data Exfiltration Shai-Hulud Descends to Hades: Miasma Worm Campaign Spreads with New PyPI Wave A coordinated supply chain attack compromised 19 PyPI packages, utilizing malicious .pth files to achieve execution at Python startup. The loader downloads the Bun runtime to execute an obfuscated JavaScript stealer targeting developer secrets, cloud credentials, and CI/CD tokens, exfiltrating data via GitHub repositories and Actions.
How 56 npm packages used binding.gyp to steal CI/CD secrets A highly coordinated supply chain attack compromised 56 npm packages across 286 versions by abusing the binding.gyp native build configuration to silently execute malicious code during installation. The multi-stage, heavily encrypted payload targets CI/CD environments to harvest cloud credentials, propagates via stolen OIDC tokens, and establishes persistence with a destructive dead man's switch.
Popular node-ipc npm Package Infected with Credential Stealer Recent versions of the popular npm package node-ipc (9.1.6, 9.2.3, 12.0.1) were compromised to include an obfuscated credential stealer. The malware executes upon CommonJS module load, harvests sensitive developer and cloud credentials, and exfiltrates the compressed data via DNS TXT queries to attacker-controlled infrastructure.
Analyzing TeamPCP’s Supply Chain Attacks: Checkmarx KICS and elementary-data in CI/CD Credential Theft TeamPCP (SHADOW-WATER-058) executed a sophisticated supply chain campaign compromising developer toolchains across multiple ecosystems, including Docker Hub, PyPI, and GitHub Actions. The attacks leveraged CI/CD trust, such as unsanitized PR comments and stolen publisher tokens, to distribute credential-harvesting payloads via Python .pth files and the Bun runtime, targeting over 80 credential types and abusing live AWS APIs.
Mini Shai-Hulud Spreads to Packagist: Malicious Intercom PHP Package Follows npm Compromise 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.
TeamPCP-Linked Supply Chain Attack Hits SAP CAP and Cloud MTA npm Packages A suspected TeamPCP-linked supply chain attack compromised multiple SAP CAP and Cloud MTA npm packages by injecting malicious preinstall scripts. The attack leverages a downloaded Bun runtime to execute an obfuscated payload that harvests extensive credentials from developer machines and CI/CD pipelines, exfiltrating data via attacker-controlled GitHub repositories and establishing persistence through VSCode and Claude AI configurations.
Can AI Attack the Cloud? Lessons From Building an Autonomous Cloud Offensive Multi-Agent System Unit 42 developed a multi-agent AI proof-of-concept named Zealot to empirically test autonomous offensive capabilities in cloud environments. The PoC successfully demonstrated that AI can autonomously chain reconnaissance, SSRF exploitation, IAM privilege escalation, and data exfiltration at machine speed against a misconfigured GCP environment.
The Vercel Breach: The Steps To Take Now to Protect Your Organization On April 19, 2026, Vercel disclosed a critical security breach originating from a compromised third-party AI tool, Context.ai. The threat actor, ShinyHunters, utilized an infostealer to harvest OAuth tokens, bypassed MFA to access Vercel's Google Workspace, and pivoted via SSO to bulk-extract customer environment variables containing highly sensitive cloud, database, and source code credentials.
Double Agents: Exposing Security Blind Spots in GCP Vertex AI Unit 42 researchers discovered that malicious AI agents deployed in GCP Vertex AI could exploit default permission scoping to extract service agent credentials. This 'double agent' attack allows unauthorized access to consumer storage buckets, restricted Google internal infrastructure, and introduces risks of remote code execution via insecure pickle deserialization.
Trivy Under Attack Again: Widespread GitHub Actions Tag Compromise Exposes CI/CD Secrets A sophisticated supply chain attack compromised the official Trivy GitHub Action (aquasecurity/trivy-action) by force-pushing 75 version tags to malicious commits. The injected infostealer harvests sensitive CI/CD secrets from runner memory and filesystems, exfiltrating them to a typosquat domain or a fallback GitHub repository.
