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Stadler Rail Everest Ransomware: SFr10m Demand Refused

By Editorial Team | July 29, 2026

The Stadler Rail Everest ransomware incident shows what a mature extortion response looks like: the Swiss train manufacturer confirmed that the Everest group stole supplier technical data through a shared data-exchange platform and demanded roughly SFr10m (about $12.3M) — and Stadler refused outright, filing a criminal complaint instead of negotiating. What Happened Stadler Rail, an…

GitLab Oj Spill RCE Exploit Goes Public

By Editorial Team | July 28, 2026

The GitLab Oj Spill RCE is now public: a working exploit chain and full technical writeup were released on July 24 for a remote-code-execution flaw that GitLab quietly patched six weeks earlier, on June 10. If your self-managed GitLab instance is still on 18.10.7 or older, any developer who can push a commit can now…

AsyncAPI npm Supply Chain Attack: No Token Stolen

By Editorial Team | July 21, 2026

The AsyncAPI npm supply chain attack shows that neither of the two controls teams were told to trust — cryptographic provenance and blocking install scripts — actually stopped it: an attacker published four trojanized packages with valid SLSA/OIDC provenance attestations, without ever stealing an npm token, and the payload runs regardless of –ignore-scripts. What Happened…

PolinRider Supply Chain Attack Hits 108 Packages

By Editorial Team | July 10, 2026

The PolinRider supply chain attack has been confirmed by Socket.dev, SecurityWeek and SC Media: a North Korea-linked actor has flooded four separate open-source ecosystems — npm, Packagist, Go modules and the Chrome Web Store — with 108 malicious packages designed to steal developer and cloud credentials. What Happened Researchers attribute the PolinRider supply chain attack…