FakeGit Targets AI Coding Agents with Malicious GitHub Repos
Threat 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 are being used to distribute a loader and an information-stealer. The FakeGit campaign is nothing new, with Oleg Zaytsev, lead security researcher with […]
Security Risks from AI Coding Agents Expand Beyond the Sandbox: Pillar
AI 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 of their time. More jobs can now get done faster. That said, such agents also represent a significant security risk, making developers – […]
Why You Need AI Agent Security Validation in Software Testing
Engineering teams have been racing for the last two years to deploy AI agents that can find bugs faster than any QA team ever could. Autonomous testing agents can crawl through codebases, identify vulnerabilities, and generate test coverage reports while developers finally get to take a breath. The irony is that while development teams enjoy […]
GitHub API Abuse, ‘Ghost’ Accounts Part of Malicious Efforts to Map Organizations
Datadog researchers uncover months-long overlapping campaigns to scrape data about companies and their developers.
Why Developer Workstations Have Become a Critical Part of the Software Supply Chain
For years, software supply-chain security discussions focused on centralized infrastructure such as build servers, package registries, and CI/CD systems. Recent attacks suggest that this view is incomplete. The Megalodon campaign injected malicious GitHub Actions workflows into thousands of repositories, while a separate incident involving a malicious Visual Studio Code extension demonstrated how a single compromised […]
‘HalluSquatting’ Compromises AI Coding Agents to Install Malware, Create Botnets
Hallucinations 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 just say “I don’t know.” They can lead to embarrassing or uncomfortable moments. However, security researchers in Israel have found that the large […]
Enterprise Smart Contracts Have a Cryptography Problem. EY Just Built a Way Around It
The business case for smart contracts is building fast. Major financial institutions are using programmable, code-based agreements to underpin financial workflows, supply chain operations, and tokenization initiatives. Developers are being asked to prove the value. But there’s a problem most organizations don’t fully see until they’re already stuck: Privacy. Public blockchains are transparent by design. […]
IBM and Red Hat Launch Lightwell Catalog to Automate Remediation
IBM and Red Hat this week revealed that Lightwell Network, a catalog of more than 6,500 application-layer dependencies that drives an automated vulnerability remediation service, is now generally available. At the same time, the Lightwell Clearinghouse Premier service, through which application development teams can both access validated patches and coordinate remediation efforts, is now available […]
GhostApproval Flaw Featuring Decades-Old Feature Found in Six AI Coding Tools
A security flaw found in six popular AI coding agents can let attackers abuse a decades-old feature in Unix to trick an AI agent into giving them control of a developer’s system. Researchers with Google-owned Wiz said the vulnerability, dubbed “GhostApproval,” relies on symbolic links – or symlinks – a file system feature that has […]
North Korea Expands the Reach of PolinRider Supply Chain Attack Campaign
The 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 Socket and Rescana found that two groups linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have published at least 108 malicious packages […]
‘GitLost’ Flaw Lets Attackers Trick GitHub AI Agent Into Leaking Private Repos
Noma researchers again show how easy it is to manipulate AI agents with malicious commands via indirect prompt injection attacks.
How AI is Revamping DevSecOps Processes
Artificial Intelligence is pushing DevSecOps into a new phase where security is no longer just about detecting vulnerabilities, but increasingly about resolving them automatically within the flow of software delivery. As many organizations are discovering, DevSecOps historically gave teams visibility into risk. AI is now turning that visibility into automated remediation. This evolution has taken […]
Block Details Builderbot Framework for Orchestrating AI Agents Across SDLC
The software engineers at Block have developed an orchestration layer they are using to manage artificial intelligence (AI) agents that have been trained to automate multiple tasks across their software development lifecycle (SDLC). Based on goose, an open source agent framework the company developed and contributed to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the Builderbot orchestration […]
How Independent Service Deployments Expose the Limits of Conventional Regression Testing Tools
The architectural shift to independently deployable services was supposed to make software delivery faster and less risky. In many aspects, it has. Teams can ship a change to one service without coordinating a release across the entire system. A bug fix in the payment service does not require a synchronized deployment with the notification service, […]
When AI Agents Get Production Access: The Next Big DevOps Risk
It wasn’t that long ago that AI assistants just watched from the sidelines. They could answer your questions, explain how things worked, sum up logs, and write deployment scripts. Handy, sure, but the real decisions? Still up to the engineers. That’s changing now. AI agents are stepping right into the heartbeat of operations. They can […]
Lightrun Adds Ability to Assess Impact Pull Request Will Have in Production
Lightrun is providing early access to an ability to verify whether a pull request (PR) will actually run in a production environment as part of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for automating site reliability engineering (SRE) workflows. Company CTO Leonid Blouvshtein said the Runtime Aware PR Verifier enables DevOps teams to assess the impact a […]
Mozilla Shows the Danger of Indirect Prompt Injections in AI Coding Agents
A clean GitHub repository that contains no malicious code can launch an attack and fully compromise a developer’s systems by using indirect prompt injections to trick AI-powered coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code into taking steps that hand control to attackers and expose a wide range of secrets. In a proof-of-concept (PoC) attack, Mozilla 0DIN […]
Harness Adds Autonomous AI Agents to Automate DevOps Workflows
Harness today is providing DevOps teams with an ability to build and deploy autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents that automate the delivery of code to production environments. Trevor Stuart, a senior vice president and general manager at Harness, said the Autonomous Worker Agents eliminate the need for fixed scripts with custom AI agents or ones […]
Attackers Exploit SimpleHelp Flaw to Steal Info from AI Coding Assistants, Clouds
Threat 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 systems and steal massive amounts of sensitive data. Researchers with Blackpoint Cyber’s Adversary Pursuit Group said they detected an intrusion in which the […]
Configuration Drift in a Multi-Cloud World
Configuration drift is the gap between the infrastructure state declared in code and the state actually running in your environment. It occurs when resources are changed outside of your infrastructure as code (IaC) workflow, so the live system no longer matches its definition. In a single cloud, drift is usually straightforward to find and correct. […]
From Phishing to Vishing: Why DevSecOps Must Rethink Communication Security
Key Takeaways: Vishing is the new frontline threat: Attackers are shifting from emails to phone-based scams, using AI and social engineering to bypass traditional security controls. DevSecOps must expand its scope: Securing code is no longer enough; communication channels like voice, chat, and messaging must be integrated into threat models and security pipelines. Human and […]
Modernization Is Not Migration
Modernization worked only if the platform became easier to change, easier to understand and safer to run under pressure. That is not a philosophical position — it is a measurable one.
Akrites: The Latest Attempt to Protect Open-Source From AI Attacks Has Arrived
Akrites, a new Linux Foundation initiative backed by many of the world’s largest tech and financial firms, is the industry’s latest attempt to get ahead of AI‑accelerated software supply chain risks by hardening critical open source projects before attackers can exploit them. On June 25, the Linux Foundation unveiled Akrites, a coordinated industry program designed […]