Cybersecurity Alert: MUT-8694 Supply Chain Attack Targets npm and PyPI Ecosystems
The open-source ecosystem has once again become the battleground for cybercriminals, as Datadog’s Security Research team uncovered a coordinated supply chain attack by an enigmatic threat actor designated MUT-8694. Leveraging malicious npm and PyPI packages, the actor has launched an extensive campaign aimed at infiltrating developers’ environments, predominantly targeting Windows users. On October…