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Miasma Malware Targets npm Packages and GitHub Actions in Supply Chain Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the supply chain attack linked to the Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades malware family that has compromised a new set of npm packages, even as it has propagated to the Go ecosystem.

“The latest activity includes malicious npm releases affecting LeoPlatform and RStreams packages, GitHub Actions workflow abuse, and a related Go module compromise involving the Verana Blockchain project,” Socket said.

The end goal of the campaign, as before, is to harvest developer or maintainer credentials and weaponize the stolen data to spread across package registries, repositories, and trusted developer workflows.

Amazon Q Developer Flaw Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code via MCP Configs

A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer’s cloud credentials. The path was short: a developer opens the repo, trusts the workspace, and Amazon Q does the rest. Amazon has patched it.

Tracked as CVE-2026–12957 (CVSS 8.5), the bug sat in how Amazon’s AI coding assistant handled Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

Wiz Research, which found and reported it, showed that a single config file dropped in a repo was enough to go from git clone to cloud compromise.

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