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North Korean hackers breached maintainer of Axios open source project, used everywhere on the web
The Register: Axios, a major open source project downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, was hacked and malicious code pushed to potentially countless downstream projects that rely on its code. Axios is used to connect apps to the internet, and is practically everywhere on the web. Google's top hacker hunters blamed the breach on suspected North Korean hackers, known for hacks that aim to steal crypto, lured in the project's primary maintainer, tricked them into installing malware using a ClickFix lure via a fake meeting update, and used that access to push out malicious versions of the Axios code, all the while locking them out of the account, per a post-mortem. It's not yet known how many malicious installs were made during this hack window. The after-effects, including further downstream breaches, may be felt for some time. If you're a developer using Axios, check your pipelines.
More: Google Threat Intelligence | Bloomberg ($) | Aikido | @IntCyberDigest | @campuscodi | @samsabin

Hasbro says it may take several weeks to recover after hack
TechCrunch ($): New, from Hasbro: Cyberattack™, a game where you're the CEO of a toymaker that just got hacked and now you have to get back up and running again. Except for the folks at Hasbro, this is no fun. The toymaking multinational told investors in an 8-K that it may take "weeks" to resolve after hackers raided its systems. Hasbro hasn't said what kind of cyberattack it is, but said it was putting its contingency plans in place to ensure it can keep taking orders, shipping products, and function as a business. It's unclear if any data was stolen. The company also holds a metric heckton of intellectual property, including Monopoly and Peppa Pig, whose website was brought down during the cyberattack, and now says that the website can't be loaded "at the moment due to a technical issue." That's one way of putting it… (Disclosure alert: I wrote this story!) No hacker group has yet taken credit for the breach.
More: BBC News ($) | Reuters ($) | GovInfoSecurity

Data breaches: Cisco, Mercor, Hims & Hers, CareCloud, European Commission
Not to be outdone by Hasbro's hack, there's a fair number of data breaches to get through this week. Alright, breathes in... Cisco had some of its source code stolen after hackers broke in by way of an earlier hack of the Trivy open-source project, which Cisco and others rely on… AI recruiting startup Mercor was hacked, potentially exposing its training data, prompting Meta to stop work with the company… The ShinyHunters gang took credit for breaching the customer service ticketing system telehealth giant Hims & Hers, and that might expose some patients' sensitive information…. What else? Oh… CareCloud, a company that stores electronic medical records on millions of patients, had one of its six databases raided, but it's still unclear on how many people had medical data stolen…. and last but not least: The European Commission's cyber agency confirmed its AWS account was hacked and tens of gigabytes stolen, including some email data. The top executive body blamed the TeamPCP hacking group for the breach, and ShinyHunters for the data leak. In an unexpected twist, a rep from ShinyHunters told TechCrunch that its hackers actually stole the data from TeamPCP's servers…! Never a dull moment in the cybercriminal world.
More: Bleeping Computer | TechCrunch ($) | HIPAA Journal | SecurityWeek | CERT-EU