DevSecOps
FakeGit Targets AI Coding Agents with Malicious GitHub Repos
Jeff Burt | | AgentBaiting, AI coding agents, AI supply chain risk, Anthropic Claude Code, fake repositories, FakeGit, github, Google Gemini, Island, MCP Server, OpenAI ChatGPT, SmartLoader, StealCThreat actors continue to find new ways to incorporate AI into schemes aimed at luring developers into downloading malware from fake repositories. The latest example involves almost 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that ...
Security Risks from AI Coding Agents Expand Beyond the Sandbox: Pillar
Jeff Burt | | AI code assistants, AI coding agents, AI Developers, AI sandbox, AI security risks, Cursor, Cymulate, Google Antigravity, Google Gemini, OpenAI Codex, Pillar Security, prompt injectionAI coding assistants have become an essential part of developers’ work, automating many of the repetitive tasks – think boilerplate coding and scaffolding – that in the past ate up a lot ...
Signed, Attested, and Malicious: The Software Supply Chain Has a Deepfake Problem
Nigel Douglas | | AI coding agents, AntV packages, behavioural analysis, continuous scanning, dependency security, Developer Security, GitHub Actions compromise, malicious packages, Miasma worm, Mini Shai-Hulud, npm malware, OIDC tokens, open source security, package provenance, package quarantine, policy as code, Red Hat npm attack, registry scanning, Shai-Hulud worm, SLSA provenance, software attestation, Software Supply Chain Security, TanStack compromise, trusted pipeline attacksA developer pulls a package from a reliable repo. It is signed, has provenance, and has been scanned. And then…it contains malware. That is no longer hypothetical. When the Miasma worm tore ...
xAI Open-Sources Grok Build Coding Agent After Cloud Upload Exposes SSH Keys, Repos
Tom Smith | | AI agent governance, AI coding agent, Apache 2.0, credential exposure, developer privacy, devops security, github, Grok Build, open-source coding agent, Repository Security, source code security, xAIxAI has published the full source code for Grok Build, its terminal-based AI coding agent, on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license. The release lands three days after a security researcher showed ...
From AI Hype to AI Assurance: How Engineering Teams Can Safely Ship AI-Enabled Software
Olamilekan Lamidi | | AI assurance, AI Governance, AI testing, generative AI, MLOps, software engineeringAI has moved very quickly from experimentation to production. A few years ago, many organizations were still asking whether AI could improve their products or internal workflows. Today, the question is different: ...
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 ...
