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CISA rewrites the SBOM floor: hashes are required, and the scope now covers AI and SaaS

The 2026 Minimum Elements guidance from CISA replaces the 2021 NTIA baseline, adds required hash, license and generation-context fields to every SBOM, renames Supplier Name to Component Producer, and extends the floor to open-source software, AI systems and software-as-a-service. For platform teams the practical consequence is that SBOM work stops living inside the build step and starts spilling into vendor contracts and runtime re-validation.

Aug 2, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Security & supply chain

npm walls off 2FA-bypass tokens from account and package management

As of July 31, npm granular access tokens configured to bypass 2FA can no longer perform sensitive account, organisation or package management actions. Those calls now demand an interactive 2FA challenge, and the same tokens are on a January 2027 timer to lose direct publish rights too.

Aug 1, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

GTIG and Mandiant publish a supply-chain hardening playbook aimed at CI/CD teams

Google's Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant have released a joint guide on defending against software supply chain compromise, mapping four control categories onto the concrete pipeline levers most teams already own: short-lived tokens, ephemeral runners, package cooldowns and dependency verification.

Jul 30, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

OpenAI open-sources the Codex Security CLI and keeps the scanner in-house

OpenAI has released the Codex Security CLI and SDK under Apache 2.0, wiring pre-commit and CI scanning into the merge path with configurable severity gates. The scanning backend and the agent that produces threat models and patches remain proprietary and available only to a limited-beta allowlist.

Jul 30, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Docker's fourth horror story revisits the Nx post-install hook that drained CI secrets

The fourth installment of Docker's Coding Agent Horror Stories, published July 28, revisits the August 2025 s1ngularity compromise of the Nx npm package. The lesson for CI/CD teams has nothing to do with coding agents. It is about the post-install hook that ran telemetry.js on every runner that pulled the package.

Jul 29, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

GitHub Actions freezes suspected-malicious workflow runs until a human signs off

GitHub has flipped Actions into a hold-first posture for workflow runs it flags as potentially malicious on public repositories: the run pauses until a collaborator with write access approves it from an authenticated web session. The change targets a wave of credential-theft attacks that push booby-trapped workflow files with stolen tokens.

Jul 28, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

FakeGit floods GitHub with malicious repos aimed at coding agents

Island researchers say a campaign called FakeGit spun up about 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, many posing as AI skills or MCP servers, to hand SmartLoader and StealC to developers and to the agents fetching capabilities on their behalf.

Jul 24, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Security & supply chain

The npm worm that shipped with valid SLSA provenance

A DevOps.com analysis of the Miasma npm worm makes an uncomfortable case: signing and provenance told the honest truth, and the pipeline still shipped malware. When the build platform itself is the attack surface, a green attestation is a description of the failure, not a defence against it.

Jul 22, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

The Codecov bash uploader is five years old, and the class of attack still lives in your pipeline

A retrospective on the January 2021 Codecov breach revisits how a single tampered line in the uploader turned tens of thousands of downstream CI environments into a secret exfiltration channel. The mechanism has not aged; the countermeasures are boring, and most pipelines still have not shipped them.

Jul 3, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Hardened-registry hygiene comes for AI agent skills

Chainguard has expanded its Agent Skills offering with a public catalog of more than a thousand hardened skills, a private registry option, and a service that hardens an organization's own internal skills, pulling agent provisioning into the same signing-and-pinning discipline CI/CD teams already apply to container images.

Jun 17, 2026 · Tomás Vega