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Threat actors could leverage a high-severity vulnerability impacting the R programming language, tracked as CVE-2024-27322, to enable arbitrary code execution during the deserialization of packages using the RDS format and potentially facilitate supply chain attacks, The Hacker News reports.

Attacks deploying a malicious Python backdoor via fraudulent NPM packages spoofing as job interviews have been targeted at software developers by suspected North Korea-linked threat actors as part of the ongoing DEV#POPPER social engineering campaign, according to The Hacker News.

Swedish government-owned liquor retailer Systembolaget, which is the country's lone vendor of alcoholic beverages, has warned of a shortage of some beers, wines, and spirits across the country following a ransomware attack against its distributor Skanlog, which its CEO Mona Zuko has attributed to a North Korean state-sponsored threat operation, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Open-source DevOps software project GitLab has also been impacted by the same security issue in GitHub comments that has been exploited by threat actors through Microsoft repository-linked URLs to facilitate the distribution of malware that was made to seem to originate from credible entities' official source code repositories, according to BleepingComputer.

Malware-laced GitHub repositories using popular names and topics are being advanced by threat actors through automated updates and fraudulent stars meant to manipulate the leading software developer platform's search rankings as part of a new open-source supply chain attack, The Hacker News reports.

Twenty-one of S&P companies have been subjected to data breaches in 2023, indicating the firms' attractiveness as cyberattack targets due to the lucrative business they bring to threat actors, reports SiliconAngle.

More than 60,000 WordPress sites with the WP-Members Membership Plugin could be compromised with arbitrary script injections due to a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1852, reports SecurityWeek.