Poking around in the Dark: Why a Shared Understanding of Components Matters

By listing the components included in an application, Software Bills of Materials SBOMs are intended to support the timely identification of vulnerable components and ensure the security of the software supply chain. However, we question the underlying assumption that there is agreement on the...

S3C2 Summit 2025-07: Government Secure Supply Chain Summit

Software supply chains, while providing immense economic and software development value, are only as strong as their weakest link. Over the past several years, there has been an exponential increase in cyberattacks specifically targeting vulnerable links in critical software supply chains. The...

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations...

Malicious code in @antv/x6-plugin-clipboard (npm)

Part of the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack campaign in which a threat actor compromised the npm account atool and published 631 malicious versions across 314 npm packages in an automated 22-minute burst. Each malicious version injects a preinstall hook that executes a 498KB obfuscated Bun...

Developer Workstations Are Now Part of the Software Supply Chain

Supply chain attackers are not only trying to slip malicious code into trusted software. They are trying to steal the access that makes trusted software possible. Recently, three separate campaigns hit npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub in a 48-hour window, and all three targeted secrets from developer...

RubyGems Suspends New Signups After Hundreds of Malicious Packages Are Uploaded

RubyGems , the standard package manager for the Ruby programming language, has temporarily paused account sign ups following what has been described as a "major malicious attack." "We're dealing with a major malicious attack on RubyGems right now," Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager for...

Trust Me, Import This: Dependency Steering Attacks Via Malicious Agent Skills

LLM-powered coding agents increasingly make software supply chain decisions. They generate imports, recommend packages, and write installation commands. Prior work showed that these systems can hallucinate non-existent package names, which attackers may register as malicious packages. In this...

Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise

A previously undocumented Linux implant codenamed Quasar Linux RAT QLNX is targeting developers' systems to establish a silent foothold as well as facilitate a broad range of post-compromise functionality, such as credential harvesting, keylogging, file manipulation, clipboard monitoring, and...

Securing the Dark Matter: A Semantic-Enhanced Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Supply Chain Analysis of Opaque Industrial Software

Automated vulnerability detection in critical-infrastructure software confronts a fundamental barrier: industrial software is routinely deployed as stripped, symbol-free binaries that deprive conventional Software Composition Analysis of the source-level transparency it requires. Existing binary...

Wiz Code Week Recap: Securing AI Native Development

Providing Application Security teams with visibility and guardrails to secure agentic software development and the modern software supply chain...

0xpay-cc-sdk (>=0.0.8 <=0.1.0), 0xtrails (>=0.0.0-20251106131028 <=0.15.1) +8768 more potentially affected by CVE-2026-42033 via axios (>=1.0.0 <=1.15.0)

axios NPM version =1.0.0, =0.0.8, =0.0.0-20251106131028, =0.1.0, =1.1.0, =0.1.0, =1.0.21, =0.1.4, =0.1.0, =1.0.10, =1.0.10, =0.0.1, =0.0.1, =0.0.1, =0.0.1, =1.1.0-beta.18 and more Source cves: CVE-2026-42033 Source advisory: SNYK:JS-AXIOS-16299904...

Malicious code in leavemealone (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 5628eb1d01e8eb7de8a582cd9ea85dff68eafde06f4e1164ae92842354db0bf7 During building the package, it executes encrypted code. The content is unclear as the decryption key bases on the local environment variable. Given leaving a...

Weaponizing the Commons: A Taxonomy and Detection Framework of Abuse on GitHub

GitHub plays a critical role in modern software supply chains, making its security an important research concern. Existing studies have primarily focused on CI/CD automation, collaboration patterns, and community management, while abuse behaviors on GitHub have received little systematic...

MAL-2026-2735 Malicious code in buildkite-test-collector-playwright-example (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d9f3f80367ea53fbaf542c199729a13115d8d848157327188cf365303af1d1f3 The package buildkite-test-collector-playwright-example was found to contain malicious code...

Software Supply Chain Smells: Lightweight Analysis for Secure Dependency Management

Modern software systems heavily rely on third-party dependencies, making software supply chain security a critical concern. We introduce the concept of software supply chain smells as structural indicators that signal potential security risks. We design and evaluate Dirty-Waters, a novel tool for...

On the Variability of Source Code in Maven Package Rebuilds

Rebuilding packages from open source is a common practice to improve the security of software supply chains, and is now done at an industrial scale. The basic principle is to acquire the source code used to build a package published in a repository such as Maven Central for Java, rebuild the...

CVE-2026-23831

Rekor is a software supply chain transparency log. In versions 1.4.3 and below, the entry implementation can panic on attacker-controlled input when canonicalizing a proposed entry with an empty spec.message, causing nil Pointer Dereference. Function validate returns nil success when message is...

PT-2026-4280

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Rekor versions 1.4.3 and below Description Rekor’s entry implementation can experience a panic when processing attacker-controlled input during the canonicalization of a proposed entry with an empty spec.message. The validate function...

PT-2026-3860

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GitLab CE/EE versions 12.3 through 18.6.3 GitLab CE/EE versions 18.7 through 18.7.1 GitLab CE/EE versions 18.8 through 18.8.1 Description An issue in GitLab CE/EE could allow an unauthenticated user to create a denial of service condition by...

Agentic AI for Autonomous Defense in Software Supply Chain Security: Beyond Provenance to Vulnerability Mitigation

The software supply chain attacks are becoming more and more focused on trusted development and delivery procedures, so the conventional post-build integrity mechanisms cannot be used anymore. The available frameworks like SLSA, SBOM and in toto are majorly used to offer provenance and traceabili...