3 Reasons Attackers Are Using Your Trusted Tools Against You (And Why You Don’t See It Coming)

Recent The Hacker News reporting highlights a surge in high-impact supply-chain compromises, active zero-day exploitation, and abuse of legitimate tooling and cloud/AI services. Notable incidents include a malicious dependency pushed to the Axios npm package (attributed to North Korea’s UNC1069), PyPI compromise of telnyx by TeamPCP, an accidental Anthropic Claude Code leak via npm packaging, and multiple active exploitation events against enterprise software (TrueConf zero-day, Citrix NetScaler reconnaissance, and F5 BIG‑IP APM KEV-listed RCE). Researchers also disclosed cloud/Vertex AI mis‑/