LATAM Developers

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported OpenAI Codex Authentication Tokens Stolen in codexui-android npm Supply Chain Attack. Published context: June 1, 2026. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malicious supply chain campaign that’s targeting developers using OpenAI Codex through a legitimate-looking remote web UI. The tool, named codexui-android, is advertised on GitHub and npm as a remote web UI for OpenAI Codex, attracting over 29,000 weekly downloads. The package is still available for d ...

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported Telli (YC F24) is hiring in engineering, design, and GTM [Berlin, on-site]. Published context: May 31, 2026. Article URL: https://hi.telli.com/join-us Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343635 Points: 0 # Comments: 0 The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. The service angle: Staff Augmentation For US engineering leaders, this points back to a practical operating need: augment US development teams with senior LATAM engineering resources. ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported AI Chatbot Recommendations Redirect Users to Cryptojacking Malware Sites. Published context: May 27, 2026. Microsoft has warned of an active cryptojacking campaign that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot interactions as a mechanism for surfacing malicious download sites. “This emerging delivery technique extends social engineering beyond conventional search results and increases the visibility of malicious software recommendations,” Microsoft Defen The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Kimsuky Deploys HTTPSpy, Expands Arsenal with HelloDoor and VS Code Tunnels. Published context: May 29, 2026. The North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimsuky (aka Velvet Chollima) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting South Korean military and corporate entities through March and April 2026. “Kimsuky employed a range of tailored social engineering tactics, such as spoofing security software installation pages and crafting a fak ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports integration with Kiro Powers. Published context: May 27, 2026. Today, AWS announces that Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports integration with Kiro Powers , enabling developers to build Aurora MySQL-backed applications faster with AI agent assistance. Kiro Powers is a repository of curated and pre-packaged Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, steering files, and hooks that have been validated by Kiro par ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported GlassWorm Malware Takedown Disrupts Developer Supply Chain Attack Infrastructure. Published context: May 27, 2026. CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, has announced the simultaneous disruption of all command-and-control (C2) channels associated with GlassWorm, a persistent software chain campaign targeting software developers through malicious packages and extensions. “Since at least early 2025, GlassWorm operators have systematically The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal AWS News Blog recently reported AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Local Zones in Istanbul, open-source ExtendDB, Kiro Web, and more (May 25, 2026). Published context: May 25, 2026. There’s something genuinely energizing about working with startups — something I’ve been doing intensely for more than two years now. Startups operate at a different frequency: the urgency is real, the constraints are tight, and the stakes are personal. Helping them navigate the challenge of proving their business model requires not just technical depth but ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported TrapDoor Supply Chain Attack Spreads Credential-Stealing Malware via npm, PyPI, and CratesIO. Published context: May 25, 2026. A new coordinated cross-ecosystem software supply chain attack campaign has targeted npm, PyPI, and Crates.io to distribute credential-stealing malware. The campaign, codenamed TrapDoor, spans more than 34 malicious packages across over 384 versions. The earliest activity was recorded on May 22, 2026, at 8:20 p.m. UTC, with new packages published to the ecos ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported npm Adds 2FA-Gated Publishing and Package Install Controls Against Supply Chain Attacks. Published context: May 23, 2026. GitHub has rolled out new controls for npm to improve the security of the software supply chain, giving maintainers the ability to explicitly approve a release prior to the packages becoming publicly available for installation. Called staged publishing, the feature is now generally available on npm. It mandates that a human maintainer pass a two-factor authe ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Datadog vended keys and Snowflake Programmatic Access Tokens. Published context: May 22, 2026. AWS Secrets Manager now extends its managed external secrets capability to include Datadog Keys and Snowflake Programmatic Access Tokens (PATs). Managed external secrets enable customers to automatically rotate third-party credentials directly from AWS Secrets Manager by offering first-class integration with supported third-party services. With this launch, ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Popular GitHub Action Tags Redirected to Imposter Commit to Steal CI/CD Credentials. Published context: May 19, 2026. In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool/issues-helper, to run malicious code that harvests sensitive credentials and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server. “Every existing tag in the repository has been moved to point to an imposter commit that does not appear i ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS announces ExtendDB, an open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter. Published context: May 20, 2026. Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced version 0.1 of ExtendDB, an open source project that implements the Amazon DynamoDB API with pluggable storage backends. Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, fully managed NoSQL database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. ExtendDB enables application developers, platform teams, and enterprise archit The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...