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As nation-state hacking becomes 'more in your face,' are supply chains secure?
2025-03-24 20:32

Ex-US Air Force officer says companies shouldn't wait for govt mandates Interview Former US Air Force cyber officer Sarah Cleveland worries about the threat of a major supply-chain attack from...

⚡ THN Weekly Recap: GitHub Supply Chain Attack, AI Malware, BYOVD Tactics, and More
2025-03-24 11:35

A quiet tweak in a popular open-source tool opened the door to a supply chain breach—what started as a targeted attack quickly spiraled, exposing secrets across countless projects. That wasn’t the...

Coinbase Initially Targeted in GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack; 218 Repositories' CI/CD Secrets Exposed
2025-03-23 05:26

The supply chain attack involving the GitHub Action "tj-actions/changed-files" started as a highly-targeted attack against one of Coinbase's open-source projects, before evolving into something...

GitHub Action supply chain attack exposed secrets in 218 repos
2025-03-20 14:34

The compromise of GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files has impacted only a small percentage of the 23,000 projects using it, with it estimated that only 218 repositories exposed secrets due to...

Too many software supply chain defense bibles? Boffins distill advice
2025-03-20 13:31

How to avoid another SolarWinds, Log4j, and XZ Utils situation Organizations concerned about software supply chain attacks should focus on role-based access control, system monitoring, and...

Chinese military-linked companies dominate US digital supply chain
2025-03-20 05:30

Despite growing national security concerns and government restrictions, Chinese military-linked companies remain deeply embedded in the US digital supply chain, according to Bitsight. These...

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation in GitHub Action Supply Chain Compromise
2025-03-19 05:05

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a vulnerability linked to the supply chain compromise of the GitHub Action, tj-actions/changed-files, to its Known...

GitHub Action hack likely led to another in cascading supply chain attack
2025-03-18 20:03

A cascading supply chain attack that began with the compromise of the "reviewdog/action-setup@v1" GitHub Action is believed to have led to the recent breach of "tj-actions/changed-files" that...

Google acquisition target Wiz links fresh supply chain attack to 23K pwned GitHub repos
2025-03-18 13:02

Ad giant just confirmed its cloudy arm will embrace security shop in $30B deal Wiz security researchers think they've found the root cause of the GitHub supply chain attack that unfolded over the...

Hackers target AI and crypto as software supply chain risks grow
2025-03-18 05:30

The growing sophistication of software supply chain attacks is driven by widespread flaws in open-source and third-party commercial software, along with malicious campaigns that specifically...