Trellix Source Code Breach Highlights Growing Supply Chain Threats
2026-05-06T02:51:45Z•accd5643555229932026e159baf38a4ca2cd9261234aa80c43aa712817e8e28f
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What happened
A surge of high-impact incidents and emerging tactics dominated DarkReading's recent coverage: supply-chain compromises (Trellix source-code leak, TeamPCP-tainted SAP npm packages, GlassWorm VS Code extensions) are proliferating and enabling downstream malware/ransomware/wiper operations (Vect 2.0, Lotus). Active exploitation and proof‑of‑concept code surfaced for critical flaws (a cPanel authentication‑bypass with reported zero‑day activity; an unpatched 'PhantomRPC' Windows privilege‑escalation), while Microsoft Edge was shown to expose stored passwords in process memory to local admin-level
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
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- accd5643555229932026e159baf38a4ca2cd9261234aa80c43aa712817e8e28f
- Enrichment time
- 2026-05-06T02:51:45Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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