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Nx Console VS Code Extension Compromised — 2.2 Million Installs Exposed to Credential Stealer With Sigstore Supply Chain Poisoning Capability

Nx Console VS Code Extension Compromised — 2.2 Million Installs Exposed to Credential Stealer With Sigstore Supply Chain Poisoning Capability

A compromised version of the Nx Console extension — a popular VS Code plugin with over 2.2 million installations — was published to the Visual Studio Code Marketplace after an attacker leveraged stolen developer credentials to inject a multi-stage credential stealer into the official nrwl/nx GitHub repository. The malicious version

By Zero Day Wire
Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware Fast16 Confirmed as Nuclear Weapons Simulation Tampering Tool Dating Back to 2005

Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware Fast16 Confirmed as Nuclear Weapons Simulation Tampering Tool Dating Back to 2005

Symantec and Carbon Black have published a definitive analysis confirming that Fast16, a Lua-based malware framework first surfaced by SentinelOne weeks ago, was purpose-built to sabotage nuclear weapons testing simulations. The findings establish Fast16 as the earliest known cyber sabotage tool targeting nuclear weapons research — predating the first known version

By Zero Day Wire
Chaotic Eclipse Releases MiniPlasma — A Five-Year-Old Windows Zero-Day That Still Grants SYSTEM Privileges on Fully Patched Systems

Chaotic Eclipse Releases MiniPlasma — A Five-Year-Old Windows Zero-Day That Still Grants SYSTEM Privileges on Fully Patched Systems

Chaotic Eclipse has released a third wave of Windows zero-day disclosures, publishing a proof-of-concept for a privilege escalation vulnerability codenamed MiniPlasma that grants SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems — including those running the latest May 2026 updates. The flaw resides in cldflt.sys, the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter

By Zero Day Wire
FamousSparrow Targets Azerbaijani Oil and Gas Firm in Three-Wave Campaign Using ProxyNotShell, Deed RAT, and Kernel-Level Rootkit

FamousSparrow Targets Azerbaijani Oil and Gas Firm in Three-Wave Campaign Using ProxyNotShell, Deed RAT, and Kernel-Level Rootkit

Bitdefender Labs has documented a sustained espionage campaign by Chinese-aligned APT group FamousSparrow against an oil and gas company in Azerbaijan, carried out across three distinct waves between December 2025 and February 2026. The campaign marks a strategic pivot for the group toward South Caucasus energy infrastructure and demonstrates how

By Zero Day Wire
Chaotic Eclipse Returns With Two More Windows Zero-Days — BitLocker Bypass YellowKey and CTFMON Privilege Escalation GreenPlasma

Chaotic Eclipse Returns With Two More Windows Zero-Days — BitLocker Bypass YellowKey and CTFMON Privilege Escalation GreenPlasma

The anonymous security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse — responsible for the BlueHammer, RedSun, and UnDefend Microsoft Defender zero-days that ZDW covered last month — has returned with two additional Windows zero-days, escalating an increasingly public confrontation with Microsoft over vulnerability disclosure handling. The first vulnerability, codenamed YellowKey, is a BitLocker bypass

By Zero Day Wire
Microsoft Exposes AiTM Phishing Campaign Targeting 35,000 Users Across 26 Countries With Code of Conduct Lures and Real-Time Token Theft

Microsoft Exposes AiTM Phishing Campaign Targeting 35,000 Users Across 26 Countries With Code of Conduct Lures and Real-Time Token Theft

Microsoft has disclosed a large-scale credential theft campaign that targeted more than 35,000 users across 13,000 organizations in 26 countries over a three-day window between April 14 and 16, 2026. The campaign combined polished enterprise-style lures with adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing to harvest Microsoft credentials and authentication tokens in

By Zero Day Wire