DevSecOps
GitHub API Abuse, ‘Ghost’ Accounts Part of Malicious Efforts to Map Organizations
Jeff Burt | | Cofense, Data Exfiltration, data mapping, data scraping, datadog, Fortran, GitHub API, GitHub ghost accounts, gitlab, GraphQL, personal tokens, REST APIsDatadog researchers uncover months-long overlapping campaigns to scrape data about companies and their developers ...
‘HalluSquatting’ Compromises AI Coding Agents to Install Malware, Create Botnets
Jeff Burt | | AI coding agents, AI hallucinations, AI security agents, Cursor, devops, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, HalluSquatting, indirect prompt injection, LLM, OpenClaw, promptwareHallucinations have been an ongoing problem since OpenAI first introduced its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, highlighting generative AI’s tendency to generate plausible but false or misleading information and its inability to ...
How to Build a DevSecOps CI/CD Pipeline on Azure With GitHub Actions
Fix security problems when they’re cheap to fix, which is before the code is deployed. A pipeline that enforces this automatically is what makes that principle real ...
North Korea Expands the Reach of PolinRider Supply Chain Attack Campaign
Jeff Burt | | AI supply chain attacks, APT37, Chrome Store, Contagious Interview, devops, devsecops, Famous Chollima, Go modules, Lazarus Group, malicious npm packages, North Korea, package registry malware, Packagist, PolinRider, Rescana, Socket, supply chainThe North Korean-sponsored threat groups behind the long-running fake interview scams targeting developers are expanding the PolinRider supply chain campaign that has escalated over the past several months. Reports from cybersecurity vendors ...
‘GitLost’ Flaw Lets Attackers Trick GitHub AI Agent Into Leaking Private Repos
Jeff Burt | | Acalvio, agentic AI guardrails, AI security, Anthropic Claude, Forcepoint, GitHub Agentic Workflows, indirect prompt injection, LLM, Markdown, Microsoft Copilot, Noma Security, private repository, public repositoryNoma researchers again show how easy it is to manipulate AI agents with malicious commands via indirect prompt injection attacks ...
Novee Uncovers Cordyceps: The Latest Threat to CI/CD Pipelines
Jeff Burt | | AI coding agents, apache, CI/CD security, Cloudflare, code repositories, Cordyceps, GitHub Actions, google, microsoft, Novee, npm malware, PyPi, Python, supply chain attacks, WizA newly discovered supply chain security flaw is once again putting a spotlight on inherent weaknesses in CI/CD pipelines and the growing interest among cyberthreat actors to exploit them. Security researchers with ...
Attackers Exploit SimpleHelp Flaw to Steal Info from AI Coding Assistants, Clouds
Jeff Burt | | AI coding assistants, Anthropic Claude Security, Blackpoint Cyber, Cloud accounts, cryptocurrency, Djinn Stealer, Google Gemini, information stealer, OpenAI Codex, RMM software, SimpleHelpThreat actors are exploiting a known security flaw in the SimpleHelp remote monitoring and management (RMM) software to drop two previously unknown pieces of malware that can compromise a broad range of ...
Why CI-Based Security is Too Late for Modern Node.js Projects
Most Node.js teams rely on CI pipelines to tell them whether their dependencies are secure. By the time that feedback arrives, however, the most important decisions have already been made ...
Homebrew to Packages: No ID, No Service
Homebrew, the unofficial but default package manager for many Apple Mac users, now has safeguards to prevent supply-chain attacks. The approach mimics how GitHub just fortified npm against attacks by establishing a ...
Checkmarx Adds Hybrid SAST Engine to Improve AppSec in AI Era
Checkmarx this week revealed it has re-engineered the core engines embedded within its static application security testing (SAST) tools for the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) era. At the core of that effort ...
Survey Surfaces Depth of DevSecOps Crisis in the Age of AI
A global survey of 2,350 developers, CISOs and application security managers published this week finds that while nearly all respondents (96%) work for organizations that have embedded or connected artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Shift Left to the Developer’s Machine: Building Local Git Security Gates
Arun Sanna | | CI/CD security, code security, Credential Leakage, Defense in Depth, developer experience, Developer Security, devsecops, Git Hooks, Git Security, GitLeaks, Open Source Security Tools, Pre-Commit Hooks, secret detection, secrets management, shift left security, Software Supply Chain, static analysis, supply chain security, vulnerability scanningShift left to the developer's machine. The principle is what matters: Stop secrets before they ship. The tooling is a means to that end. ...
