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A critical design flaw in the Google Cloud Build service discovered by cloud security firm Orca Security can let attackers escalate privileges, providing them with almost nearly-full and unauthorized access to Google Artifact Registry code repositories. Dubbed Bad.Build, this flaw could enable the threat actors to impersonate the service account for the Google Cloud Build managed continuous integration and delivery service to run API calls against the artifact registry and take control over application images.

Decades ago, Tony Turner, CEO of Opswright and author of Software Transparency: Supply Chain Security in an Era of a Software-Driven Society, faced an SQL Slammer worm. During his 25-year career in supply chain security and product security, he became an expert in engineering, security, and product design and he even served as the VP of R&D at Fortress.

In what's a new kind of software supply chain attack aimed at open source projects, it has emerged that threat actors could seize control of expired Amazon S3 buckets to serve rogue binaries without altering the modules themselves. "Malicious binaries steal the user IDs, passwords, local machine environment variables, and local host name, and then exfiltrates the stolen data to the hijacked bucket," Checkmarx researcher Guy Nachshon said.

British Airways, BBC and Boots have all been served an ultimatum after they were hit with a supply-chain attack by the ransomware group Clop. In February 2023, Clop claimed responsibility for a supply-chain attack that affected more than 130 organizations, including data belonging to CHS Healthcare patients.

Stealer logs represent one of the primary threat vectors for modern companies. Threat actors who purchase stealer logs have the responsibility of distributing the malware to victims.

British Airways, the BBC, and UK pharmacy chain Boots are among the companies whose data has been compromised after miscreants exploited a critical vulnerability in deployments of the MOVEit document-transfer app. Instead, payroll services provider Zellis on Monday admitted its MOVEit installation had been exploited, and as a result "a small number of our customers" - including the aforementioned British trio - had their information stolen.

Integrating proprietary and open-source code, APIs, user interfaces, application behavior, and deployment workflows creates an intricate composition in modern applications. Any vulnerabilities within this software supply chain can jeopardize your and your customers' safety.

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Google on Wednesday announced the 0.1 Beta version of GUAC for organizations to secure their software supply chains. GUAC aims to aggregate software security metadata from different sources into a graph database that maps out relationships between software, helping organizations determine how one piece of software affects another.

In 2021, the Biden Administration published the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, setting off an agency-wide security initiative with the ultimate objective of standardizing security requirements across the Department of Defense and the Federal Civilian Executive Branch supply chain. These revisions point to a wider adoption of the NIST SP 800-171 and 800-53 controls, meaning that organizations contracting across the FCEB supply chain should start reviewing their current security posture in preparation.