Tag: supply-chain
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OpenAIs Aardvark soll Fehler im Code erkennen und beheben
Tags: ai, ceo, chatgpt, cve, cyberattack, LLM, open-source, openai, risk, software, supply-chain, tool, update, vulnerabilityKI soll das Thema Sicherheit frühzeitig in den Development-Prozess miteinbeziehen.OpenAI hat Aardvark vorgestellt, einen autonomen Agenten auf Basis von GPT-5. Er soll wie ein menschlicher Sicherheitsforscher in der Lage sein, Code zu scannen, zu verstehen und zu patchen.Im Gegensatz zu herkömmlichen Scannern, die verdächtigen Code mechanisch markieren, versucht Aardvark zu analysieren, wie und warum sich…
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Airstalk Malware Turns MDM Tools into Covert Spy Channels
Airstalk discovery reveals nation-state hackers exploiting trusted tools to infiltrate supply chains undetected. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/airstalk-malware-turns-mdm-tools-into-covert-spy-channels/
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Airstalk Malware Turns MDM Tools into Covert Spy Channels
Airstalk discovery reveals nation-state hackers exploiting trusted tools to infiltrate supply chains undetected. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/airstalk-malware-turns-mdm-tools-into-covert-spy-channels/
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Heisenberg: Open-source software supply chain health check tool
Heisenberg is an open-source tool that checks the health of a software supply chain. It analyzes dependencies using data from deps.dev, Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/11/03/heisenberg-open-source-software-supply-chain-health-check-tool/
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Heisenberg: Open-source software supply chain health check tool
Heisenberg is an open-source tool that checks the health of a software supply chain. It analyzes dependencies using data from deps.dev, Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/11/03/heisenberg-open-source-software-supply-chain-health-check-tool/
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Open VSX rotates access tokens used in supply-chain malware attack
The Open VSX registry rotated access tokens after they were accidentally leaked by developers in public repositories and allowed threat actors to publish malicious extensions in an attempted supply-chain attack. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/open-vsx-rotates-tokens-used-in-supply-chain-malware-attack/
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New Email Security Technique Prevents Phishing Attacks Behind NPM Breach
The discovery of a large-scale NPM ecosystem compromise in September 2025 has renewed focus on email security as the critical first line of defense against supply chain attacks. Threat actors successfully compromised multiple high-profile NPM developer accounts through a sophisticated phishing campaign, inserting malicious code into 20 popular packages that collectively received nearly 2.8 billion…
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Nation-State Breach Hits Ribbon Communications
SEC Filing Reveals Telecom Vendor Was Compromised for Nearly a Year. A nation-state threat actor carried out a supply chain attack targeting Ribbon Communications, a leading U.S. provider of telecom and networking infrastructure, and may have maintained access within its systems for nearly a year. Ribbon said it became aware of the activity in early…
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Nation-State Hackers Deploy New Airstalk Malware in Suspected Supply Chain Attack
A suspected nation-state threat actor has been linked to the distribution of a new malware called Airstalk as part of a likely supply chain attack.Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said it’s tracking the cluster under the moniker CL-STA-1009, where “CL” stands for cluster and “STA” refers to state-backed motivation.”Airstalk misuses the AirWatch API for mobile…
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OpenAI launches Aardvark to detect and patch hidden bugs in code
Tags: ai, attack, cve, flaw, framework, LLM, open-source, openai, software, supply-chain, update, vulnerabilitySecuring open source and shifting security left: Aardvark’s role extends beyond enterprise environments. OpenAI has already deployed it across open-source repositories, where it claims to have discovered multiple real-world vulnerabilities, ten of which have received official CVE identifiers. The LLM giant said it plans to provide pro-bono scanning for selected non-commercial open-source projects, under a…
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OpenAI launches Aardvark to detect and patch hidden bugs in code
Tags: ai, attack, cve, flaw, framework, LLM, open-source, openai, software, supply-chain, update, vulnerabilitySecuring open source and shifting security left: Aardvark’s role extends beyond enterprise environments. OpenAI has already deployed it across open-source repositories, where it claims to have discovered multiple real-world vulnerabilities, ten of which have received official CVE identifiers. The LLM giant said it plans to provide pro-bono scanning for selected non-commercial open-source projects, under a…
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The unified linkage model: A new lens for understanding cyber risk
Tags: access, api, attack, breach, ciso, cloud, compliance, credentials, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, flaw, framework, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, mitre, network, nist, okta, open-source, radius, resilience, risk, risk-analysis, saas, sbom, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day, zero-trustMissed systemic risk: Organizations secure individual components but miss how vulnerabilities propagate through dependencies (e.g., Log4j embedded in third-party apps).Ineffective prioritization: Without a linkage structure, teams patch high-severity CVEs on isolated systems while leaving lower-scored flaws on critical trust pathways.Slow incident response: When a zero-day emerges, teams scramble to locate vulnerable components. Without pre-existing linkage…
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AI-powered bug hunting shakes up bounty industry, for better or worse
Tags: access, ai, authentication, automation, bug-bounty, business, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, data, detection, exploit, flaw, guide, identity, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, risk, risk-management, sql, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerabilityFirehose of ‘false positives’: Gunter Ollmann, CTO at Cobalt.io, warns that AI is exacerbating the existing problem that comes from vendors getting swamped with often low-quality bug submissions.Security researchers turning to AI is creating a “firehose of noise, false positives, and duplicates,” according to Ollmann.”The future of security testing isn’t about managing a crowd of…
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AI-powered bug hunting shakes up bounty industry, for better or worse
Tags: access, ai, authentication, automation, bug-bounty, business, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, data, detection, exploit, flaw, guide, identity, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, risk, risk-management, sql, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerabilityFirehose of ‘false positives’: Gunter Ollmann, CTO at Cobalt.io, warns that AI is exacerbating the existing problem that comes from vendors getting swamped with often low-quality bug submissions.Security researchers turning to AI is creating a “firehose of noise, false positives, and duplicates,” according to Ollmann.”The future of security testing isn’t about managing a crowd of…
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Building Cyber Resilience Across Canada’s Skies
NAV Canada CISO Tom Bornais on Keeping IT and OT Systems Running. With threats targeting aviation infrastructure, NAV Canada CISO Tom Bornais explained how his team focuses on building resilience rather than chasing perfection. He outlined why internal alignment, incident simulation and supply chain security are critical to defending IT and OT systems. First seen…
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Malicious packages in npm evade dependency detection through invisible URL links: Report
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, control, detection, edr, endpoint, exploit, flaw, github, governance, hacker, malicious, malware, microsoft, open-source, programming, service, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, trainingCampaign also exploits AI: The names of packages uploaded to npm aren’t typosquats of common packages, a popular tactic of threat actors. Instead the hackers exploit AI hallucinations. When developers ask AI assistants for package recommendations, the chatbots sometimes suggest plausible-sounding names that are close to those of legitimate packages, but that don’t actually exist.…
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Hidden npm Malware Exposes New Supply Chain Weakness
Hidden npm malware steals developer credentials, exposing major software supply chain risks in the open-source ecosystem. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/news/hidden-npm-malware-supply-chain/
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Year-Long Nation-State Hack Hits US Telecom Ribbon Communications
Ribbon Communications discloses a year-long breach by nation-state actors. The attack highlights critical supply chain risk, reflecting the Salt Typhoon and F5 espionage trends. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/nation-state-hack-us-telecom-ribbon-communications/
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Year-Long Nation-State Hack Hits US Telecom Ribbon Communications
Ribbon Communications discloses a year-long breach by nation-state actors. The attack highlights critical supply chain risk, reflecting the Salt Typhoon and F5 espionage trends. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/nation-state-hack-us-telecom-ribbon-communications/
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Year-Long Nation-State Hack Hits US Telecom Ribbon Communications
Ribbon Communications discloses a year-long breach by nation-state actors. The attack highlights critical supply chain risk, reflecting the Salt Typhoon and F5 espionage trends. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/nation-state-hack-us-telecom-ribbon-communications/
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Typo hackers sneak cross-platform credential stealer into 10 npm packages
Payload for IP fingerprinting and credential theft: Once the fake CAPTCHA interaction occurs, the installer sends the victim’s IP address to the attacker’s server, a step that allows tracking, geofencing, and exclusion of unwanted targets.It then downloads the payload from the same host, which is a 24 MB Pyinstaller-packed application that contains hundreds of thousands…
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Airstalk Malware: Multi-Threaded C2 Steals Windows Logins
Tags: attack, communications, control, cyber, cybersecurity, infrastructure, login, malware, mobile, powershell, supply-chain, threat, windowsCybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sophisticated Windows malware family dubbed Airstalk, which leverages legitimate mobile device management infrastructure to establish covert command-and-control communications and exfiltrate sensitive browser credentials. The malware, available in both PowerShell and .NET variants, has been linked with medium confidence to a nation-state threat actor operating through a likely supply chain attack…
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Airstalk Malware: Multi-Threaded C2 Steals Windows Logins
Tags: attack, communications, control, cyber, cybersecurity, infrastructure, login, malware, mobile, powershell, supply-chain, threat, windowsCybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sophisticated Windows malware family dubbed Airstalk, which leverages legitimate mobile device management infrastructure to establish covert command-and-control communications and exfiltrate sensitive browser credentials. The malware, available in both PowerShell and .NET variants, has been linked with medium confidence to a nation-state threat actor operating through a likely supply chain attack…
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: DNS Poisoning Flaw, Supply-Chain Heist, Rust Malware Trick and New RATs Rising
The comfort zone in cybersecurity is gone. Attackers are scaling down, focusing tighter, and squeezing more value from fewer, high-impact targets. At the same time, defenders face growing blind spots — from spoofed messages to large-scale social engineering.This week’s findings show how that shrinking margin of safety is redrawing the threat landscape. Here’s what’s First…
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PhantomRaven Malware Found in 126 npm Packages Stealing GitHub Tokens From Devs
Tags: attack, authentication, credentials, cybersecurity, github, malicious, malware, software, supply-chainCybersecurity researchers have uncovered yet another active software supply chain attack campaign targeting the npm registry with over 100 malicious packages that can steal authentication tokens, CI/CD secrets, and GitHub credentials from developers’ machines.The campaign has been codenamed PhantomRaven by Koi Security. The activity is assessed to have begun in August 2025, when the first…
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Notable post-quantum cryptography initiatives paving the way toward Q-Day
Tags: attack, awareness, cisa, cisco, communications, computer, computing, crypto, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, finance, framework, google, government, group, guide, ibm, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iot, linux, microsoft, mitre, ml, nist, nvidia, open-source, service, side-channel, software, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilityIndustry heavyweights line up behind PQC: Google”¯Chrome became the first mainstream browser to support hybrid post”‘quantum key exchanges by default late last year.The approach combines classical elliptic-curve encryption, for backwards compatibility, with lattice-based PQC derived from ML-KEM.Other industry giants, including Amazon and IBM, have also begun laying foundations for quantum-safe cryptography. For example, IBM has…