Tag: supply-chain
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CI/CD Under Attack: What the AWS CodeBuild “CodeBreach” Flaw Reveals About Modern Supply Chain Risk
A recent disclosure revealed a critical flaw in AWS CodeBuild that could allow attackers to abuse CI/CD pipelines and inject malicious code into trusted software builds by exploiting weaknesses in webhook validation, according to WebProNews. Rather than targeting production systems directly, the issue exposed how attackers can compromise software supply chains by manipulating trusted automation.…
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EU tightens cybersecurity rules for tech supply chains
The European Commission has proposed a new cybersecurity package aimed at strengthening the EU’s cyber resilience, including a revised EU Cybersecurity Act designed to secure … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/01/21/eu-cybersecurity-act-revised/
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13 cyber questions to better vet IT vendors and reduce third-party risk
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, best-practice, breach, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, credit-card, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, extortion, firewall, healthcare, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, international, ISO-27001, jobs, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, nist, password, PCI, penetration-testing, radius, ransomware, risk, saas, sans, security-incident, service, supply-chain, threat, update, vpn, vulnerabilityVital vendor questions CISOs should ask: To gain that critical information, security leaders and experts recommend CSOs ask IT partners the following cyber-specific questions. 1. What attestation will you provide to prove proper security controls are in place? These are essential, says Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO for cybersecurity and compliance platform Onapsis. Some of the…
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13 cyber questions to better vet IT vendors and reduce third-party risk
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, best-practice, breach, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, credit-card, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, extortion, firewall, healthcare, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, international, ISO-27001, jobs, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, nist, password, PCI, penetration-testing, radius, ransomware, risk, saas, sans, security-incident, service, supply-chain, threat, update, vpn, vulnerabilityVital vendor questions CISOs should ask: To gain that critical information, security leaders and experts recommend CSOs ask IT partners the following cyber-specific questions. 1. What attestation will you provide to prove proper security controls are in place? These are essential, says Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO for cybersecurity and compliance platform Onapsis. Some of the…
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Europe Readies Law to Eject Chinese Equipment From Telecoms
Revised Cybersecurity Act Would Also Boost ENISA. Countries across the EU could be forced to kick Chinese telecom manufacturers such as Huawei and ZTE out of their critical infrastructure supply chains, under a far-reaching proposal published by the European Commission on Tuesday. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/europe-readies-law-to-eject-chinese-equipment-from-telecoms-a-30566
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Europe Readies Law to Eject Chinese Equipment From Telecoms
Revised Cybersecurity Act Would Also Boost ENISA. Countries across the EU could be forced to kick Chinese telecom manufacturers such as Huawei and ZTE out of their critical infrastructure supply chains, under a far-reaching proposal published by the European Commission on Tuesday. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/europe-readies-law-to-eject-chinese-equipment-from-telecoms-a-30566
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AWS Console Supply Chain Flaw Could Have Enabled GitHub Repo Hijacks
Wiz says an AWS CodeBuild flaw could have enabled GitHub repo hijacks, though AWS reports no impact. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/aws-console-supply-chain-flaw-could-have-enabled-github-repo-hijacks/
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Mandiant pushes organizations to dump insecure NTLMv1 by releasing a way to crack it
Tags: attack, authentication, computer, credentials, crypto, cve, data, data-breach, email, encryption, group, Hardware, international, mandiant, microsoft, network, ntlm, phishing, risk, service, supply-chain, theft, threat, vulnerability, windowspass-the-hash. The benefit is time and money saved: Mandiant reckons its rainbow table allows the recovery of an NTLMv1 key in 12 hours using a computer costing $600, rather than relying on third party services or expensive hardware to brute-force the keys.None of this makes NTLMv1 less secure or easier to target than it already…
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Ransomware attack on Ingram Micro impacts 42,000 individuals
Tags: apple, attack, cisco, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, jobs, microsoft, ransomware, service, supply-chain, technologyIngram Micro says a ransomware attack exposed personal data of about 42,000 people, including names, birth dates, SSNs, and job-related details. Ingram Micro is a global technology distributor and supply-chain services company. It acts as a middleman between IT vendors (like Microsoft, Cisco, HP, Apple, and cybersecurity firms) and businesses, resellers, and service providers, helping…
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From arts degree to cybersecurity: Rona Michele Spiegel brings fresh perspective to cyber leadership
Tags: ai, awareness, business, cisco, ciso, cloud, compliance, computer, cyber, cybersecurity, data, governance, group, hacking, Hardware, intelligence, jobs, network, office, penetration-testing, privacy, psychology, risk, risk-management, skills, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, technology, tool, vulnerabilityRona Michele Spiegel’s journey to cybersecurity might seem unconventional to some: She studied the arts. But as someone who grew up when computers first appeared and everyone wanted to experiment with them, she did a lot of multimedia work. She was always interested in technology and discussed with art colleagues about where the world was…
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AWS Console Supply Chain Breach Enables GitHub Repository Hijacking
Tags: attack, breach, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, github, malicious, open-source, service, supply-chain, threatA newly reported supply chain attack targeting the Amazon Web Services (AWS) management console has raised alarms across the developer community. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that threat actors are exploiting misconfigured AWS credentials and integrated GitHub actions tohijack repositoriesand inject malicious code into open-source projects. According to the security firm that uncovered the incident, attackersexploitcompromised…
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Insider risk in an age of workforce volatility
Tags: access, ai, api, authentication, automation, backdoor, backup, china, ciso, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, exploit, framework, governance, government, identity, jobs, least-privilege, malicious, mitigation, monitoring, network, risk, strategy, supply-chain, threat, zero-trustEarly warnings: The machine as insider risk/threat: These dynamics are not emerging in a vacuum. They represent the culmination of warnings that have been building for years.As early as 2021, in my CSO opinion piece “Device identity: The overlooked insider threat,” Rajan Koo (then chief customer officer at DTEX Systems, now CTO) observed: “There needs…
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Confidential Supply Chains: Wie Unternehmen ihre Softwarelieferkette strategisch absichern
In den letzten Jahren haben Supply-Chain-Angriffe zeitweise ganze Branchen lahmgelegt oder massenhaften Datendiebstahl ermöglicht. Vor dem Hintergrund des EU-Cyber-Resilience-Acts wird von Softwareherstellern daher künftig nicht nur Transparenz, sondern auch nachweisbare Integrität ihrer Komponenten verlangt. Kryptografisch gesicherte Pipelines und Confidential Computing ermöglichen hier eine belastbare, auditfähige Lieferkette. Aber wie sieht eine solche »Confidential Supply Chain« in……
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Possible software supply chain attack through AWS CodeBuild service blunted
Developers shouldn’t expose build environments: CSOs should ensure developers don’t expose build environments, Meghu said. “Using public hosted services like GitHub is not appropriate for enterprise code management and deployment,” he added. “Having a private GitLab/GitHub, service, or even your own git repository server, should be the default for business, making this attack impossible if…
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AWS CodeBuild Misconfiguration Exposed GitHub Repos to Potential Supply Chain Attacks
A critical misconfiguration in Amazon Web Services (AWS) CodeBuild could have allowed complete takeover of the cloud service provider’s own GitHub repositories, including its AWS JavaScript SDK, putting every AWS environment at risk.The vulnerability has been codenamed CodeBreach by cloud security company Wiz. The issue was fixed by AWS in September 2025 following responsible disclosure…
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2025 Threat Landscape in Review: Lessons for Businesses Moving Into 2026
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, authentication, awareness, backdoor, breach, business, captcha, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, credit-card, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, ddos, defense, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, google, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, leak, malicious, mitigation, monitoring, network, pypi, risk, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, windows2025 Threat Landscape in Review: Lessons for Businesses Moving Into 2026 andrew.gertz@t“¦ Thu, 01/15/2026 – 16:48 Nadav Avital – Senior Director of Threat Research at Thales More About This Author > 2025 was a year that tested how businesses think about security. Some attacks happened in new, unexpected ways, while others employed old tricks, taken…
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News alert: Panorays study finds most CISOs lack vendor visibility as supply chain attacks climb
NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2026, CyberNewswire, Panorays, a leading provider of third-party security risk management software, has released the 2026 edition of its annual CISO Survey for Third-Party Cyber Risk Management. The survey highlights third-party cyber risk… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/news-alert-panorays-study-finds-most-cisos-lack-vendor-visibility-as-supply-chain-attacks-climb/
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News alert: SpyCloud unveils supply chain security tool that detects compromised vendors’ employees
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 14, 2026, CyberNewsWire, SpyCloud, the leader in identity threat protection, today announced the launch of its Supply Chain Threat Protection solution, an advanced layer of defense that expands identity threat protection across the extended workforce,… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/news-alert-spycloud-unveils-supply-chain-security-tool-that-detects-compromised-vendors-employees/
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From typos to takeovers: Inside the industrialization of npm supply chain attacks
Tags: access, application-security, attack, automation, backdoor, blockchain, breach, control, credentials, cybersecurity, github, gitlab, malicious, malware, phishing, radius, risk, supply-chain, threat, update, wormFrom typo traps to legitimate backdoors: For years, typosquatting defined the npm threat model. Attackers published packages with names just close enough to popular libraries, such as “lodsash,” “expres,” “reacts,” and waited for automation or human error to do the rest. The impact was usually limited, and remediation straightforward.That model began to break in 2025.Instead…
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CISOs flag gaps in third-party risk management
Third-party cyber risk continues to concern security leaders as vendor ecosystems grow, supply chains stretch, and AI plays a larger role in business operations. A recent … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/01/15/panorays-cisos-ai-vendor-risk/
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Survey: Rapid AI Adoption Causes Major Cyber Risk Visibility Gaps
As software supply chains become longer and more interconnected, enterprises have become well aware of the need to… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/survey-rapid-ai-adoption-cyber-risk-visibility-gaps/
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SpyCloud Launches Supply Chain Solution to Combat Rising Third-Party Identity Threats
Austin, TX / USA, 14th January 2026, CyberNewsWire First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/spycloud-launches-supply-chain-solution-to-combat-rising-third-party-identity-threats/
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Building a Solid IT Strategy in an Unstable World
Experts on How CIOs Can Avoid ‘Geopolitical Lock-In’ in AI, Cloud and Supply Chains. Geopolitical instability is a part of reality in 2026, and the stakes are high for CIOs who must rely on global supply chains to develop IT, artificial intelligence, cloud and cybersecurity strategies. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/building-solid-strategy-in-unstable-world-a-30512
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2026 Study from Panorays: 85% of CISOs Can’t See Third-Party Threats Amid Increasing Supply Chain Attacks
New York, NY, January 14th, 2026, CyberNewsWire Panorays, a leading provider of third-party security risk management software, has released the 2026 edition of its annual CISO Survey for Third-Party Cyber Risk Management. The survey highlights third-party cyber risk as one of the most critical challenges facing security leaders today, driven largely by a lack of…
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SpyCloud Launches Supply Chain Solution to Combat Rising Third-Party Identity Threats
Austin, TX / USA, January 14th, 2026, CyberNewsWire New monitoring capability delivers unprecedented visibility into vendor identity exposures, moving enterprises and government agencies from static risk scoring to protecting against actual identity threats. SpyCloud, the leader in identity threat protection, today announced the launch of its Supply Chain Threat Protection solution, an advanced layer of…
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SpyCloud Launches Supply Chain Solution to Combat Rising Third-Party Identity Threats
Austin, TX / USA, 14th January 2026, CyberNewsWire First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/spycloud-launches-supply-chain-solution-to-combat-rising-third-party-identity-threats/
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SpyCloud Launches Supply Chain Solution to Combat Rising Third-Party Identity Threats
Tags: access, ai, authentication, breach, business, communications, compliance, credentials, cybercrime, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, government, grc, group, identity, incident response, infosec, infrastructure, malware, monitoring, phishing, ransomware, risk, risk-management, service, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, toolFor government agencies and critical infrastructure operators, supply chain threats present national security risks that demand heightened vigilance. Public sector organizations managing sensitive data and critical services increasingly rely on contractors and technology vendors whose compromised credentials could provide adversaries with pathways into classified systems or essential infrastructure. Last year alone, the top 98 Defense…
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Cybersecurity risk will accelerate this year, fueled in part by AI, says World Economic Forum
Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, ceo, ciso, control, country, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, exploit, finance, framework, fraud, governance, healthcare, incident, infrastructure, international, middle-east, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityAI is anticipated to be the most significant driver of change in cybersecurity in 2026, according to 94% of survey respondents;87% of respondents said AI-related vulnerabilities had increased in the past year. Other cyber risks that had increased were (in order) cyber-enabled fraud and phishing, supply chain disruption, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities;confidence in national cyber…
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Magecart Hits Continue: Stripe Spoofing, Supply Chain Risks
Digital Skimming Attacks Spoof Stripe Payment Forms to Steal Payment Card Data. Magecart-style digital skimming attacks targeting payment card data continue, with researchers detailing an active campaign targeting the popular WooCommerce platform and Stripe. Separately, widely used ConnectPOS exposing its code repository for years, posing a supply-chain risk for customers. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…