TrapDoor Supply Chain Attack Spreads Credential-Stealing Malware via npm, PyPI, and CratesIO
2026-05-25T07:24:08Z•2986c6515ed400210a4a1594b9d053de0c35590770d1dbd69acac1f30fe3445f
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What happened
A wave of high-impact supply-chain and infrastructure incidents: a coordinated cross-ecosystem supply-chain campaign dubbed “TrapDoor” is distributing credential-stealing malware via npm, PyPI and Crates.io (34 malicious packages across ~384 versions, first observed May 22, 2026). Multiple other package repositories were hit (Laravel-Lang PHP packages, Packagist), and GitHub suffered large-scale automated CI/CD injection (Megalodon) plus an internal-repo breach via a poisoned Nx Console VS Code extension. Several actively exploited and high-severity flaws were disclosed or added to CISA KEV (e
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- the_hacker_news
- Record identifier
- 2986c6515ed400210a4a1594b9d053de0c35590770d1dbd69acac1f30fe3445f
- Enrichment time
- 2026-05-25T07:24:08Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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