Follow-up to the axios compromise. Public reporting from GitHub, Socket, Google, and Microsoft shows UNC1069/Sapphire Sleet used the same social-engineering playbook against maintainers tied to Mocha, Fastify, Lodash, dotenv, and Node.js core.
The axios postmortem from maintainer Jason Saayman lays out the full social-engineering chain: a fake company Slack workspace, a fake Teams meeting, and a RAT that took over the machine. 2FA and OIDC were both bypassed.
An intrusion campaign that auto-scanned FortiGate in 106 countries using DeepSeek and Claude; Starkiller, a reverse-proxy PhaaS that nullifies MFA; Anthropic's Claude Code Security finding 500+ vulnerabilities in production OSS; and PayPal exposing SSNs for six months due to a coding mistake.
