Tag: supply-chain
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Minimal, Hardened, and Updated Daily: The New Standard for Secure Containers
Chainguard provides DevSecOps teams with a library of secure-by-default container images so that they don’t have to worry about software supply chain vulnerabilities. The startup is expanding its focus to include Java and Linux, as well. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/minimal-hardened-updated-daily-new-standard-secure-containers
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Healthcare Under Pressure
Tags: attack, breach, credentials, cybersecurity, healthcare, phishing, ransomware, supply-chain, threat, vulnerabilityThere’s no such thing as a routine day in healthcare IT anymore. While clinicians focus on saving lives, cybersecurity teams are fighting their own battles behind the scenes”, battles against credential thieves, ransomware disruptions, phishing attacks and supply chain vulnerabilities that can knock entire hospital systems offline. And the threats are accelerating. With record-breaking breach…
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Threat Actors Exploit Open-Source Vulnerabilities to Spread Malicious Code
Tags: ai, cyber, data, exploit, malicious, malware, open-source, pypi, software, supply-chain, threat, vulnerabilityFortiGuard Labs has reported a sustained trend in the exploitation of open-source software (OSS) repositories for malware dissemination within supply chain ecosystems. As development workflows increasingly depend on third-party packages, adversaries are capitalizing on vulnerabilities in platforms like NPM and PyPI to inject malicious code, facilitate data exfiltration, and inflict broader damage. Leveraging proprietary AI-driven…
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Top cybersecurity M&A deals for 2025
Tags: 5G, access, ai, api, apple, application-security, attack, automation, awareness, banking, breach, business, ceo, cisco, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, detection, edr, email, endpoint, finance, firewall, gitlab, government, group, ibm, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, leak, microsoft, mitigation, network, password, programming, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, sophos, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, waf, zero-trustPalo Alto Networks to buy CyberArk for $25B as identity security takes center stage July 30, 2025: Palo Alto Networks is making what could be its biggest bet yet by agreeing to buy Israeli identity security company CyberArk for around $25 billion. “We envision Identity Security becoming the next major pillar of our multi-platform strategy, complementing our leadership…
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MCP: securing the backbone of Agentic AI
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, business, ciso, control, credentials, cyber, data, detection, injection, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, RedTeam, risk, security-incident, service, supply-chain, trainingFour cornerstones for securing MCP servers: CISOs can largely rely on the proven basic principles of cyber security for MCP they just need to adapt them in a few places. Pure checklists fall short here. Instead, a clear, principles-based approach is required. Four central pillars have proven themselves in practice: Strong authentication and clean credential…
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North Korean hackers target open-source repositories in new espionage campaign
In its latest operation, Lazarus took advantage of major gaps in the open-source software supply chain, like developers depending on unvetted packages and the lack of oversight for popular tools that are often maintained by just one or two people. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/north-korean-hackers-targeting-open-source-repositories
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Cybersecurity Trends 2025: What’s Really Coming for Your Digital Defenses
Cybersecurity trends in 2025 reveal rising AI threats, quantum risks, and supply chain attacks, pushing firms to adapt or face major data and financial losses. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/cybersecurity-trends-2025-whats-your-digital-defenses/
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Prepping for the quantum threat requires a phased approach to crypto agility
Tags: access, ceo, ciso, computing, crypto, cryptography, cybersecurity, encryption, firmware, government, Hardware, identity, network, nist, open-source, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerabilityMissing pieces: Michael Smith, field CTO at DigiCert, noted that the industry is “yet to develop a completely PQC-safe TLS protocol.””We have the algorithms for encryption and signatures, but TLS as a protocol doesn’t have a quantum-safe session key exchange and we’re still using Diffie-Hellman variants,” Smith explained. “This is why the US government in…
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The food supply chain has a cybersecurity problem
It’s unsettling to think that our food supply chain could be targeted or that the safety of our food could be compromised. But this is exactly the challenge the agri-food … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/30/agri-food-sector-cybersecurity/
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Lazarus Subgroup ‘TraderTraitor’ Targets Cloud Platforms and Contaminates Supply Chains
Tags: cloud, cyber, cybersecurity, group, lazarus, mandiant, microsoft, north-korea, supply-chain, threatThe North Korean state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) known as TraderTraitor, a subgroup of the notorious Lazarus Group, has emerged as a formidable actor specializing in digital asset heists. Tracked under aliases such as UNC4899, Jade Sleet, TA444, and Slow Pisces by various cybersecurity firms including Mandiant, Microsoft, Proofpoint, and Unit42, TraderTraitor operates under the…
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Supply Chain Attacks Spotted in GitHub Actions, Gravity Forms, npm
Researchers discovered backdoors, poisoned code, and malicious commits in some of the more popular tool developers, jeopardizing software supply chains. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/supply-chain-attacks-github-actions-gravity-forms-npm
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Hackers Breach Toptal GitHub, Publish 10 Malicious npm Packages With 5,000 Downloads
Tags: access, attack, authentication, breach, github, hacker, malicious, software, supply-chain, threatIn what’s the latest instance of a software supply chain attack, unknown threat actors managed to compromise Toptal’s GitHub organization account and leveraged that access to publish 10 malicious packages to the npm registry.The packages contained code to exfiltrate GitHub authentication tokens and destroy victim systems, Socket said in a report published last week. In…
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Entwickler-Tool von Amazon verseucht
Tags: access, ai, cloud, cyberattack, cybersecurity, github, governance, hacker, injection, monitoring, open-source, risk, supply-chain, tool, update, vulnerabilityAuch die leistungsstärksten KI-Tools sind kontraproduktiv, wenn sie nicht richtig abgesichert sind. Einem Hacker ist es gelungen, zerstörerische Systembefehle in die Visual-Studio-Code-Extension einzuschleusen, die für den Zugriff auf Amazons KI-gestützten Programmierassistenten Q verwendet wird. Der Angreifer konnte das Entwickler-Tool (mit mehr als 950.000 Installationen) über ein nicht-verifiziertes GitHub-Konto verseuchen: Er reichte Ende Juni 2025 einen…
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Your supply chain security strategy might be missing the biggest risk
Third-party involvement in data breaches has doubled this year from 15 percent to nearly 30 percent. In response, many organizations have sharpened their focus on third-party … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/28/vendor-risk-management/
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Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand
Attacks affected packages, including one with ~2.8 million weekly downloads. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/open-source-repositories-are-seeing-a-rash-of-supply-chain-attacks/
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Supply chain attack compromises npm packages to spread backdoor malware
Tags: attack, authentication, backdoor, control, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, email, linux, macOS, malicious, malware, mfa, phishing, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, windowsis npm JavaScript type testing utility with malware that went unnoticed for six hours. The bad news was delivered by maintainer Jordan Harband in a post on Bluesky:”Heads up that v3.3.1 of npmjs.com/is has malware in it, due to another maintainer’s account being hijacked,” he wrote.The infected version was removed by npm admins and v3.3.0…
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Singapore’s cybersecurity paradox: Top firms rated A, yet all breached
Tags: access, attack, china, cybersecurity, espionage, exploit, group, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, metric, mfa, network, resilience, risk, router, service, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerabilitySingapore faces targeted threats: Beyond statistical exposure, Singapore is also facing targeted campaigns against its critical infrastructure. One such operation involves China-linked threat group UNC3886, recently observed exploiting vulnerabilities in Juniper (Junos OS) routers to infiltrate telecom and service provider networks.Gilad Maizles, threat researcher at SecurityScorecard, said, “The campaign appears to be operated through a…
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Singapore’s cybersecurity paradox: Top firms rated A, yet all breached
Tags: access, attack, china, cybersecurity, espionage, exploit, group, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, metric, mfa, network, resilience, risk, router, service, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerabilitySingapore faces targeted threats: Beyond statistical exposure, Singapore is also facing targeted campaigns against its critical infrastructure. One such operation involves China-linked threat group UNC3886, recently observed exploiting vulnerabilities in Juniper (Junos OS) routers to infiltrate telecom and service provider networks.Gilad Maizles, threat researcher at SecurityScorecard, said, “The campaign appears to be operated through a…
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CISO Conversations: How IT and OT Security Worlds Are Converging
Dark Reading’s Kelly Jackson Higgins interviews Carmine Valente, Deputy CISO at Con Edison, about his role at the New York-based electric utility and the state of IT and OT security. Valente highlights current threats like ransomware and supply chain attacks, as well as the impact of AI on both defense and threats. First seen on…
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NPM package ‘is’ with 2.8M weekly downloads infected devs with malware
The popular NPM package ‘is’ has been compromised in a supply chain attack that injected backdoor malware, giving attackers full access to compromised devices. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/npm-package-is-with-28m-weekly-downloads-infected-devs-with-malware/
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Google Launches OSS Rebuild to Expose Malicious Code in Widely Used Open-Source Packages
Google has announced the launch of a new initiative called OSS Rebuild to bolster the security of the open-source package ecosystems and prevent software supply chain attacks.”As supply chain attacks continue to target widely-used dependencies, OSS Rebuild gives security teams powerful data to avoid compromise without burden on upstream maintainers,” Matthew Suozzo, Google Open Source…
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Malware Injected into 7 npm Packages After Maintainer Tokens Stolen in Phishing Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have alerted to a supply chain attack that has targeted popular npm packages via a phishing campaign designed to steal the project maintainers’ npm tokens.The captured tokens were then used to publish malicious versions of the packages directly to the registry without any source code commits or pull requests on their respective GitHub…
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Prettier-ESLint npm packages hijacked in a sophisticated supply chain attack
Tags: attack, authentication, credentials, detection, github, malicious, mfa, phishing, rce, remote-code-execution, supply-chain, updateAutomated GitHub alarms triggered a quick response: Detection was swift once the updates bypassed GitHub’s usual commit-based alerts and raised red flags in registry logs. The maintainer revoked the compromised token, deprecated the malicious releases, and collaborated with npm to remove them.Socket noted that the attack is a textbook example of “multi-stage supply chain compromise,”…
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Malware Injected into 5 npm Packages After Maintainer Tokens Stolen in Phishing Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have alerted to a supply chain attack that has targeted popular npm packages via a phishing campaign designed to steal the project maintainers’ npm tokens.The captured tokens were then used to publish malicious versions of the packages directly to the registry without any source code commits or pull requests on their respective GitHub…
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Malware Injected into 6 npm Packages After Maintainer Tokens Stolen in Phishing Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have alerted to a supply chain attack that has targeted popular npm packages via a phishing campaign designed to steal the project maintainers’ npm tokens.The captured tokens were then used to publish malicious versions of the packages directly to the registry without any source code commits or pull requests on their respective GitHub…
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Popular npm linter packages hijacked via phishing to drop malware
Popular JavaScript libraries eslint-config-prettier and eslint-plugin-prettier were hijacked this week and turned into malware droppers, in a supply chain attack achieved via targeted phishing and credential theft. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/popular-npm-linter-packages-hijacked-via-phishing-to-drop-malware/