Nx Console 18.95.0 compromised and VS Code developers targeted by Credential Stealer
Ravi LakshmananMay 19, 2026Supply chain attacks/developer security Cybersecurity researchers reported a compromised version of the Nx Console extension published to the Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) marketplace. The extension in question is rwl.angular-console (version 18.95.0), a popular user interface and plugin for code editors such as VS Code, Cursor, and JetBrains. Over 2.2 million […]
Theo Baker spent four years researching Stanford. Before he left, this is what he found.
Most of Stanford’s 2026 graduates are smart, ambitious, and poised for great careers. Theo Baker already has it. During his first semester at the university, Baker published an article that led to the resignation of Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne. For his work, Baker received one of journalism’s highest honors, the George Polk Award. Warner […]
Popular GitHub action tag redirects to fraudsters stealing CI/CD credentials
Ravi LakshmananMay 19, 2026Software security/malware In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool/issues-helper, collected sensitive credentials, and executed malicious code that was leaked to attacker-controlled servers. “All existing tags in the repository were moved to point to the impostor commit, which does not appear in the action’s […]
Mini Shai-Hulud pushes malicious AntV npm packages via compromised maintainer account
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new software supply chain attack campaign that compromises various npm packages associated with the @antv ecosystem as part of the ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud attack wave. “This attack affects packages associated with the npm maintainer account atool, including echarts-for-react, a widely used React wrapper for Apache ECharts that is downloaded approximately […]
OSHA investigates worker death at SpaceX’s Starbase site
A worker died Friday at SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in south Texas, prompting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to investigate. The San Antonio Express-News reported Monday that the unidentified victim died around 4:17 a.m. local time on May 15, citing OSHA and local officials. The Wall Street Journal later reported that the county […]
SandboxAQ brings drug discovery models to Claude – no computing PhD required
Drug discovery is one of the most expensive endeavors in modern industry. Finding a single viable molecule can take a decade and cost billions of dollars, and most candidates have yet to be successful. A generation of AI startups promises to solve this problem, and most of them are making the problem less painful for […]
Elon Musk loses lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
Elon Musk’s claims that he was treated unfairly by OpenAI’s co-founders failed after a nine-judge California jury unanimously ruled that the lawsuit was filed too late. Musk accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft of “stealing charity” by creating a for-profit affiliate of Frontier AI Labs. However, the jury found that any damages that […]
Interpol’s Operation Ramz disrupts MENA cybercrime network, arrests 201 people
Interpol coordinated its first cybercrime crackdown across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), resulting in 201 arrests and the identification of a further 382 suspects. The effort, which ran from October 2025 to February 2026, involved efforts from 13 countries in the region and aimed to investigate and neutralize malicious infrastructure, apprehend the perpetrators […]
NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach that affected at least 1.8 million people
New York public health provider NYC Health and Hospitals announced that at least 1.8 million people were affected by a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data, medical records, and fingerprint scans. NYCHHC is the largest public health system in the United States, providing health care to more than 1 million New […]
Kin Health raises $9 million to build AI note-taker for patients
The market for AI note-taking devices is exploding in the U.S., with more than $600 million in revenue generated in the sector last year, according to a report by Menlo Ventures. And as startups like Heidi Health and Freed demonstrate, there’s a decent demand for this technology in the medical field, with doctors and clinics […]