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36 pieces of writing

security13 min read

PCPJack, polyfill CDN and Bright Data SDK show supply chain attacks moving into runtime weaponisation

Supply chain compromise is shifting from static package poisoning towards runtime weaponisation, where trusted code becomes a credential harvester, traffic broker or covert infrastructure node after deployment.

MCP OAuth token persistence turns AI orchestration into a supply-chain trust boundary
security13 min read

MCP OAuth token persistence turns AI orchestration into a supply-chain trust boundary

security13 min read

May 2026 developer-tooling compromises: VS Code extensions, PyPI packages and GitHub Actions turned workstations into supply-chain targets

security11 min read

GitHub Actions OIDC and TanStack show why 2026 supply chain attacks target release authority

Supply chain compromise has shifted from stealing credentials to poisoning package ecosystems through compromised CI/CD systems, maintainer accounts and trusted execution paths.

security14 min read

Checkmarx KICS, npm Bitwarden CLI and GlassWorm show developer trust is the supply chain target

security10 min read

Vercel breached through a compromised Context.ai OAuth grant

security9 min read

From tj-actions to LiteLLM to MCP: supply chain compromise now operates at infrastructure scale

Eighteen months of supply chain attacks against AI infrastructure reveal a structural pattern: the build pipeline, the package registry and the runtime protocol all share the same trust model failure.

Anthropic shipped its entire source code to npm and the internet kept it forever
security10 min read

Anthropic shipped its entire source code to npm and the internet kept it forever

Environment variables are the new command line: how AI agents keep leaking secrets through configuration files
security12 min read

Environment variables are the new command line: how AI agents keep leaking secrets through configuration files

TeamPCP compromised the AI proxy that holds everyone's API keys
security9 min read

TeamPCP compromised the AI proxy that holds everyone's API keys

LiteLLM, the universal LLM proxy with 95 million monthly downloads, was backdoored on PyPI for 46 minutes. It was enough.

Git tags, package registries and extension marketplaces share the same broken authentication model
security12 min read

Git tags, package registries and extension marketplaces share the same broken authentication model

Hermes Agent's worktree feature copied arbitrary files from your filesystem
security7 min read

Hermes Agent's worktree feature copied arbitrary files from your filesystem

MCP gave AI tools a standard interface. Researchers found it was also an attack surface.
security12 min read

MCP gave AI tools a standard interface. Researchers found it was also an attack surface.

MCP promised to be the USB-C port for AI. Researchers found it was more like an unlocked door with a welcome mat for attackers.

UNC5221 stole F5 source code and its customer list
security8 min read

UNC5221 stole F5 source code and its customer list

Basic ransomware hit one airport software vendor and grounded five European airports overnight
security7 min read

Basic ransomware hit one airport software vendor and grounded five European airports overnight

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