Hong Kong authorities are investigating a suspicious fire that broke out in a residential flat, after a man died when he fell from the building and an elderly woman was overcome due to heavy smoke. Police received a report of the fire on Friday at around 7pm at a flat in Royal Garden, Ho Man Tin. Firefighters arrived at the scene, used a ladder to access the flat, and put out the blaze about 30 minutes later.
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Hong Kong authorities are investigating a suspicious fire that broke out in a residential flat, after a man died when he fell from the building and an elderly woman was overcome due to heavy smoke. Police received a report of the fire on Friday at around 7pm at a flat in Royal Garden, Ho Man Tin. Firefighters arrived at the scene, used a ladder to access the flat, and put out the blaze about 30 minutes later. During the incident, a man fell from the sixth floor of the building onto a car park,...
Published
May 1, 2026, 07:31 PM UTC
11d ago
Significance
Google Threat Intelligence reports a sophisticated supply chain attack on axios NPM package versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 (March 31, 2026), where attackers injected malicious 'plain-crypto-js' dependency to deploy WAVESHAPER.V2 backdoor across Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms. Attribution to UNC1069 based on malware signatures, infrastructure overlaps, and operational patterns. Remediation guidance includes version pinning, dependency auditing, CI/CD pipeline security, and credential rotation.
A critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-1731) has been identified in remote monitoring and management software that could be exploited to deploy ransomware and compromise supply chain integrity. The flaw enables attackers to execute arbitrary code, creating significant risk for downstream organizations and critical infrastructure.
Bitwarden CLI, the command-line interface for the password manager Bitwarden, has been compromised as part of a newly discovered Checkmarx supply chain campaign. The affected package version is @bitwarden/cli@2026.4.0, with malicious code published in 'bw1.js,' according to findings from JFrog and Socket.
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