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IN THE WILD
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items report exploitation — not proof of concept

WHAT DID NOT MAKE IT
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records parsed from the source feeds — before the time window and de-duplication

22 dropped by rule · 31 held by the daily cap · +3 pulled back from the agent-security lane (12 + 3) — items the daily cap held. They ship without an editorial rationale, because held items do not carry one. · config 90E3557B — unchanged since 2026-09-22

The digest hands us counts, not the discarded items — so this shows how many and why, not which.

📦 NPM ECOSYSTEM
measured 2026-08-12 from public APIs, not quoted
02030405060708

July brought 4,084 new advisories for malicious npm packages. Other months run around 731 — July is a spike, not a trend.

All 8,189 of them, across seven months, are rated critical. Not one carries a computed CVSS score — there is nothing to score in a malicious package. It is not a flaw in the code, it is intent. Triage them by severity and every one is a tie.

But reach is distributed extremely unevenly. Of the 354 packages we could resolve, 67% have no dependents at all — their reach is zero. Among the rest the median multiplier is 1.95×, and 7% multiply thirtyfold or more. Highest measured case: engine.io has 118 direct dependents and reaches 15,865 through the tree. An average severity cannot see that spread at all.

Dependencies: a deps.dev v3alpha dependentCount measurement, SINGLE provider, no cross-check, window 2026-07. The package version is picked by a rule frozen BEFORE the run and BLIND to the measured value — the earlier method took the maximum across six versions, i.e. selected on the quantity it was meant to measure, and overstated the tail twofold. Amplification is undefined for packages with no dependents; those are reported separately as zero reach, not as a missing value. And advisories capture a fraction of malicious packages — this is the advisory denominator, not the malware denominator.

ATTENTION
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CATEGORIES
CVE11
patch-or-mitigation Gates: attention_class=RED | publication_severity=RED10
critical-infra-disruption9
critical-infra/OT9
crime8
cloud/AI-stack5
SOURCES
CISA Advisories9
The Hacker News4
BleepingComputer1
CISA KEV1

Attention classes are how much attention we gave an item. They are not severity verdicts.

☁️Siemens Industrial Edge Management

CISA Advisories · CVE · crime

View CSAF Summary Industrial Edge Management contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow an…

☁️lwIP (Lightweight IP)

CISA Advisories · CVE · crime

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a system crash, a DoS, or memory corruption,…

🎯CVE-2026-93952 - Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator: Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Improper Input Validation Vulnerability

CISA KEV · exploited · CVE

Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) on-prem contains an improper input validation vulnerability that may allow a remote…

🔑Critical Bifrost AI Gateway Flaw Lets Attackers Run Commands Without Credentials

The Hacker News · AI/agent · CVE

A critical vulnerability in Bifrost, an open-source AI gateway that routes requests to more than 20 LLM providers,…

📦Siemens SIPLUS and SIMATIC Products

CISA Advisories · CVE · supply-chain

View CSAF Summary Multiple Siemens products are vulnerable to the "Copy Fail" vulnerability. Siemens has released new…

🩹lwIP TCP/IP Stack MQTT Client Application

CISA Advisories · CVE · crime

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain full code execution on the…

🩹Siemens SIMOVE Fleetmanager and SIPLANT

CISA Advisories · CVE · crime

View CSAF Summary SIMOVE Fleetmanager and SIPLANT contain a path traversal vulnerability that could allow an attacker to…

🩹OpenPLC Runtime v3

CISA Advisories · CVE · crime

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to hijack session cookies and issue…

🩹Siemens Desigo CC family

CISA Advisories · CVE · critical-infra/OT

View CSAF Summary A Client Code Execution (CCE) vulnerability has been identified in Desigo CC, potentially allowing…

🩹Siemens WTV676 and WTV776

CISA Advisories · CVE · critical-infra/OT

View CSAF Summary The products listed below contain a denial of service vulnerability that could allow an attacker to force…

🎯Researcher Drops BigDiskBuster Zero-Day PoC That Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates

The Hacker News · exploited · supply-chain

A zero-day proof-of-concept tool that stops Microsoft Defender from installing platform and signature updates by filling all…

🩹Siemens Siveillance Control

CISA Advisories · CVE · critical-infra/OT

View CSAF Summary A vulnerability has been identified in the Open Interface Services (OIS) web module affecting Siveillance…

🎣Microsoft Takes Down EvilTokens Device-Code Phishing Service Tied to 12,000 Inbox Compromises

The Hacker News · AI/agent · crime

🦠New ClosedQuorum Windows malware uses AI for attack decisions

BleepingComputer · AI/agent · msft/identity

🦠One Hidden Meta Muse Setting Could Let Attackers Turn the AI Assistant Into a Backdoor

The Hacker News · AI/agent · malware-control