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Week in review: LLM package hallucinations harm supply chains, Nagios Log Server flaws fixed
2025-04-20 08:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Apple plugs zero-day holes used in targeted iPhone attacks (CVE-2025-31200, CVE-2025-31201) Apple...

From Third-Party Vendors to U.S. Tariffs: The New Cyber Risks Facing Supply Chains
2025-04-16 11:26

Introduction Cyber threats targeting supply chains have become a growing concern for businesses across industries. As companies continue to expand their reliance on third-party vendors,...

AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk
2025-04-12 14:19

A new class of supply chain attacks named 'slopsquatting' has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding and the model's tendency to "hallucinate" non-existent package names. [...]

That massive GitHub supply chain attack? It all started with a stolen SpotBugs token
2025-04-07 20:11

But this mystery isn't over yet, Unit 42 opines That massive GitHub supply chain attack that spilled secrets from countless projects? It traces back to a stolen token from a SpotBugs workflow -...

SpotBugs Access Token Theft Identified as Root Cause of GitHub Supply Chain Attack
2025-04-04 12:28

The cascading supply chain attack that initially targeted Coinbase before becoming more widespread to single out users of the "tj-actions/changed-files" GitHub Action has been traced further back...

Recent GitHub supply chain attack traced to leaked SpotBugs token
2025-04-03 14:46

A cascading supply chain attack on GitHub that targeted Coinbase in March has now been traced back to a single token stolen from a SpotBugs workflow, which allowed a threat actor to compromise...

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...