GitHub Dependabot malware alerts now cover eight ecosystems 2026-08-10 at 10:01 By Mirko Zorz GitHub has flagged npm malware since March 2026. Anyone pulling in a bad PyPI, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, Go, crates.io, or PHP Composer package has had no such warning, because GitHub’s malware detection only ever watched one ecosystem. That changed this month. […]
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Chainloop: Open-source evidence store and policy engine for the software supply chain 2026-08-10 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Chainloop is an open source evidence store for the software supply chain. A command line tool runs inside a GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Dagger pipeline, picks up what the build produced, uploads those files to content-addressable
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Future AGI: Open-source platform for shipping self-improving AI agents 2026-08-05 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Future AGI is an open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, simulating, and guardrailing LLM agents, licensed Apache 2.0 and self-hostable. Self-hosted instances register with Future AGI on first boot and send an instance ID, a version string, a deployment type, and
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AI developers targeted via trojanized GitHub repositories 2026-08-04 at 17:10 By Sinisa Markovic Cybercriminals are cloning popular GitHub repositories for AI tools and developer resources to distribute an infostealer, according to Netskope Threat Labs. (Source: Netskope) Netskope came across the campaign while tracking a Windows-based MaaS infostealer, first reported in April 2026, that was spread
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Microsoft shortens NuGet API key lifetime to improve supply chain security 2026-08-04 at 11:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft is reducing the lifetime of new NuGet.org API keys from 365 days to 30 days starting August 17, 2026, to improve the security of NuGet, its package repository for .NET developers. API keys created before August 17
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OWASP’s subtractive security project measures the attack paths you erased 2026-08-04 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz An attacker who talks a user into opening an attachment gets whatever that machine still permits: a service account with rights across the domain, an outbound route to anywhere, a scripting engine sitting there for the taking. Christopher Frenz
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SkillSpector: NVIDIA’s open-source security scanner for AI agent skills 2026-08-03 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec SkillSpector is an open-source scanner from NVIDIA that reads an agent skill and tells you whether to install it. Point it at a directory, a zip file, a single SKILL.md, or a Git URL, and it returns a list of
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New GitHub, PyPI Policies Boost Supply Chain Security 2026-07-27 at 17:26 By Ionut Arghire Dependabot gets a three-day cooldown window before opening pull requests, and PyPI rejects file uploads to releases older than 14 days. The post New GitHub, PyPI Policies Boost Supply Chain Security appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from
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GitHub revamps bug bounty program with new VIP tier, payout changes 2026-07-23 at 11:35 By Anamarija Pogorelec GitHub is changing its bug bounty program to reward higher-quality vulnerability reports and reduce low-effort submissions, including AI-generated reports. The changes will take effect on July 27, 2026. Reports submitted before that date will be honored under the
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Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents 2026-07-22 at 09:00 By Sinisa Markovic The pull request arrives with the tests already run and the description already written, the work of an agent that handled the whole thing on its own. Somebody still has to read it. On GitHub that somebody is usually
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Snowpick: Open-source ServiceNow exposure scanner 2026-07-22 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz An employee opens a company service portal, searches the knowledge base, and drops a file onto a ticket. Someone who never signed in can send a request to that same portal and get records back. Bishop Fox ran that test across 166 ServiceNow instances
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AI agents tricked into recommending malicious GitHub repositories 2026-07-21 at 17:27 By Sinisa Markovic Roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories were uncovered, more than 800 of them posing as AI Skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, in a wave that peaked in April 2026, according to Island. The scale of the FakeGit operation (Source: Island)
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Open-source maintainers still work underfunded as sponsorship crosses $100 million 2026-07-21 at 11:37 By Anamarija Pogorelec A maintainer patches a library late at night that ships inside thousands of products, and no invoice follows. Sebastián Ramírez and Caleb Porzio spent years in that position. Ramírez, known as tiangolo, builds tools that other Python projects depend
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Meet Dusseldorf, Microsoft’s open-source out-of-band security platform 2026-07-20 at 09:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Out-of-band vulnerabilities surface when an application quietly reaches out to an external system during an attack, and capturing that traffic calls for infrastructure that many researchers assemble on their own. A new open-source project from Microsoft supplies that infrastructure in a package
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VS Code agent host runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process 2026-07-16 at 10:45 By Anamarija Pogorelec Developers who lean on AI coding agents often keep several editor windows open at once, each tied to its own session. The 1.129 release of Visual Studio Code reworks that setup with a dedicated agent host.
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Threat actor impersonated hundreds of brands on GitHub to push infostealer malware 2026-07-15 at 16:52 By Zeljka Zorz A financially motivated threat actor is impersonating hundreds of brands on GitHub and pushing a smash-and-grab infostealer masquerading as legitimate downloads of popular software, Arctic Wolf threat researchers have warned. “The 292 impersonated repositories span security tooling,
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SingGuard-NSFA: Open-source guardrails for agentic AI 2026-07-15 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec SingGuard-NSFA is an open-source guardrail framework aimed at operational threats in agent workflows. Four models ship at 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters, all built on Qwen3.5 base backbones. Risk taxonomy The NSFA risk taxonomy organizes threats along the CIA triad of confidentiality,
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Cynative: Open-source deep research agent 2026-07-13 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Running a large language model against a live cloud account to hunt for security holes comes with an obvious hazard. An agent that holds real credentials and a mandate to poke around can delete a bucket, flip a permission, or leak a secret on
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Ghost Accounts Abuse GitHub API in Mass Recon Campaign 2026-07-11 at 20:30 By Ionut Arghire Multiple campaigns are using ghost accounts to map GitHub organizations, including their repositories and members. The post Ghost Accounts Abuse GitHub API in Mass Recon Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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Network of 200 GitHub Repositories Used for Malware Infection 2026-07-10 at 11:00 By Ionut Arghire A Go module is used to load PowerShell code that fetches a resolver from public dead drops to execute Windows malware. The post Network of 200 GitHub Repositories Used for Malware Infection appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an
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