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Docker Hub gets OIDC federation for GitHub Actions, retiring the PAT-in-a-secret pattern

Docker has added OpenID Connect authentication for GitHub Actions on Team, Business and Docker Hardened Images plans, so workflows push and pull images with a short-lived per-run token instead of a stored Personal Access Token. It closes off one of the last static credentials still sitting in most Actions repos.

Aug 1, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Supply chain security

Image verification, one layer below admission

A CNCF post outlines a Node Resource Interface plugin that verifies SLSA, VEX and VSA attestations at CreateContainer time inside the container runtime, closing gaps that admission webhooks can miss.

Jul 31, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

PyPI stops accepting late file uploads to releases older than 14 days

PyPI will no longer accept new files uploaded to a release once that release is more than 14 days old, closing a stealth path a compromised publishing token could otherwise use to graft malicious code onto an established package. PyPI has said it is not yet aware of the technique being used in a real attack.

Jul 28, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Security & supply chain

Confidential Containers hits CNCF incubation, and every pipeline is on notice

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted Confidential Containers into incubation on July 22, moving TEE-backed pods one step closer to being a normal part of the Kubernetes stack. If your pipeline already signs and attests images, the runtime side is about to demand the same discipline.

Jul 25, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Time-to-exploit went negative. Mandiant maps where AI helps the vulnerability queue, and where it fails silently.

Google Cloud's Mandiant team pins mean time-to-exploit at negative seven days and publishes a blueprint for aiming large language models at the vulnerability pipeline. The failure modes it lists are the ones that let the exploit through.

Jul 22, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

xAI publishes Grok Build's source after the coding agent was caught siphoning SSH keys

Three days after a researcher demonstrated the Grok Build CLI silently uploading SSH keys and repository contents to xAI's cloud, xAI dropped the agent's full source on GitHub under Apache 2.0. The code is now inspectable. The trust model is a different question.

Jul 21, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

The workstation is in scope now

A DevOps.com essay argues the laptop that pushes commits belongs inside the supply-chain threat model, citing the Megalodon campaign that injected malicious GitHub Actions workflows into thousands of repositories and a separate malicious VS Code extension incident. What CI-side controls actually catch this, and where the pipeline runs out of leverage.

Jul 19, 2026 · Tomás Vega Supply chain security

GitLab tries to auto-fix the transitive-dep problem it keeps quantifying

GitLab has moved Dependency Scanning Auto-Remediation into beta, aimed squarely at the transitive supply-chain risk it just spent a research cycle measuring. The interesting question is not whether the fix ships, but whether anyone downstream trusts the bot enough to merge it.

Jul 17, 2026 · Tomás Vega Supply-chain security

Cordyceps: when a stranger's pull request runs as a maintainer

Researchers at Novee catalogue Cordyceps, a class of CI/CD supply-chain exploit where pull requests and comments from untrusted contributors get executed with maintainer permissions. A scan of 30,000 high-impact repositories flagged 654 candidates and confirmed over 300 as fully exploitable, with named blast radius inside Microsoft, Google, Apache and Cloudflare.

Jul 16, 2026 · Tomás Vega Supply chain security

Dependabot learns to wait: version-update PRs now sit for three days by default

GitHub is flipping Dependabot version updates to a default three-day package cooldown. A new release has to sit on its registry for at least three days before Dependabot will open a version-update PR; security updates are exempt and still open immediately.

Jul 15, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Datadog says months-long GitHub recon out of dormant 'ghost' accounts is prep for supply-chain attacks

Datadog security researchers say overlapping months-long campaigns have been abusing GitHub's public API and reactivating more than 50 long-dormant accounts to map organizations and their engineers. The setup looks a lot like the reconnaissance phase of a supply-chain intrusion.

Jul 14, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Security & supply chain

k8s-aibom writes down the AI your cluster is already running

Google Cloud open-sourced k8s-aibom, an unprivileged Kubernetes controller that watches the cluster API for inference runtimes and agent frameworks and emits OWASP CycloneDX ML-BOMs from what it finds. The bet is that shadow-AI inventory is easier to solve from outside the workload than by asking developers to fill in a form.

Jul 14, 2026 · Tomás Vega Supply-chain security

The five-minute SBOM sniff test earns its keep

A quick, deliberate look at the bill of materials for a hardened image catches supply-chain trouble a CVE scanner will never flag. Bolt it into the pipeline, not the compliance report.

Jul 13, 2026 · Tomás Vega Supply-chain security

HalluSquatting: the dependency your agent invented, and the attacker who registered it first

Researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Technion, and Intuit describe a supply-chain pattern, HalluSquatting, that turns an AI coding agent's tendency to hallucinate package and repository names into a delivery channel for remote code execution and botnet payloads. The novelty is in the delivery, not the malware.

Jul 13, 2026 · Tomás Vega Supply-chain security

Innersource security advisories go GA: a private channel for private vulns

GitHub Advanced Security now lets enterprise customers publish security advisories that stay inside the enterprise, and Dependabot picks them up like it would a public CVE. Useful, narrow, and only as good as the discipline behind it.

Jul 11, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

GhostApproval: six AI coding agents shipped a permission dialog that was reading the wrong path

Researchers at Google-owned Wiz disclosed GhostApproval, a class of flaw across six AI coding tools in which symbolic links redirect the agent's file writes while the human approval prompt shows the pre-resolution path. The mechanism is thirty years old; the CI/CD lesson is newer.

Jul 10, 2026 · Tomás Vega Supply chain security

npm v12 flips install-time to closed-by-default

npm v12 shipped as latest on July 8, 2026, with lifecycle scripts, git-URL dependencies and remote-URL dependencies all off by default at install time. Alongside it, the 2FA-bypass Granular Access Token starts a two-step retirement that ends direct publishes.

Jul 9, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

setup-java 5.5.0 adds JDK signature verification, if you remember to enable it

GitHub's actions/setup-java 5.5.0 adds opt-in GPG signature verification for downloaded JDKs, plus a Kona distribution parameter and a set of Maven quality fixes. It closes a real supply-chain gap for Java CI jobs, but existing pipelines keep pulling unsigned JDKs until someone flips the switch.

Jul 9, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

The SBOM you can trust is the one your build actually made

Docker published a guide arguing that SBOMs generated at build time beat post-build scans on completeness, accuracy and freshness. The distinction quietly changes what a CI pipeline is on the hook for.

Jul 8, 2026 · Tomás Vega Supply-chain security

PolinRider keeps expanding, and the postinstall still lands on your runner

DevOps.com reports two DPRK-linked groups are expanding PolinRider, a supply-chain campaign that pushes malicious packages into developer workflows through long-running fake-interview scams. Socket and Rescana are named as the vendors doing the attribution. The pipeline lesson is old, and unfinished.

Jul 8, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

GitHub starts watching the whole public site for your leaked secrets

GitHub is previewing public monitoring for enterprise secret scanning: real-time detection across all of public github.com, with leaks attributed back to your organisation. Useful, and a preview, so read the small print.

Jul 6, 2026 · Tomás Vega Supply-chain security

Cordyceps and the pipeline attack surface we keep ignoring

Novee Security disclosed a CI/CD flaw pattern, Cordyceps, that an unauthenticated actor can use to plant self-propagating triggers across pipelines. The specifics matter less than the shape: pipelines keep landing on the attack surface, and organizations keep treating them like build tools.

Jul 2, 2026 · Tomás Vega Supply-chain security

Aikido buys Root to patch open source in place, without the upgrade dance

Aikido Security acquired Root, a company whose technology fixes known vulnerabilities directly inside the package version you already run. The trade-off: someone other than upstream now decides what your dependency looks like on disk.

Jul 1, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

GitHub Actions hands fork triggers a read-only cache token

GitHub Actions now issues read-only cache tokens to workflow events fired from outside a repository's collaborator set, applying least privilege to the default-branch cache so untrusted triggers cannot poison entries the next push reuses.

Jun 30, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Kubernetes will let you write patches with AI. It will not let you hide it.

The Kubernetes project published an AI contribution policy on June 26, 2026 that bans AI co-author trailers, requires PR descriptions to disclose generative-AI assistance, and tells maintainers to close PRs whose authors cannot explain the code in person. For any project taking community patches, it is a usable template.

Jun 30, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

CI is the wrong place to first hear about your npm dependencies

A DevOps.com essay argues dependency-security feedback that only arrives after a push and a pipeline run is structurally too late for Node projects, where transitive findings can outnumber direct ones. The diagnosis is right. The prescription deserves more scrutiny than the post gives it.

Jun 29, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Cilium publishes its CI hardening playbook, gaps and all

The Cilium project's third post in its CI/CD hardening series walks through how it manages credentials and verifies what it ships, then lists the parts it has not fixed yet. The unusual move is publishing the unfinished work.

Jun 26, 2026 · Tomás Vega Supply chain security

npm freezes high-impact maintainer accounts for 72 hours after a sensitive change

npm now puts its 'high-impact' maintainer accounts into a 72-hour read-only state whenever it detects a sensitive account change like an email update or 2FA recovery code use. Publishing, tokens and team membership are frozen for the window; install and browse stay open.

Jun 26, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

SP Page Builder ships a one-file controller patch in 6.6.2, and the locked support thread is a reminder that patching isn't cleanup

JoomShaper has published the verbatim fix for a vulnerable controller endpoint in its SP Page Builder Joomla extension as a public GitHub gist, after issuing the same fix bundled in v6.6.2. The thread that hosts the patch is locked, and the comments under it are the real story: agencies reporting client sites already compromised, with the update closing the door behind attackers who walked in last week.

Jun 26, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Chainguard's drop-in Java libraries trade a framework upgrade for an SLA

Chainguard is shipping drop-in remediated Java libraries for legacy shops carrying unpatched CVE backlogs, positioned as a package swap inside the build in place of a framework upgrade. The trade-off is who owns the patching SLA from then on.

Jun 25, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Homebrew 6.0.0 turns third-party taps into an opt-in trust list

Homebrew 6.0.0 introduces a tap-trust gate that blocks any third-party tap a user has not explicitly approved with brew trust. CI pipelines that install from those taps will need a setup step before the formula resolves.

Jun 23, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

The Linux Foundation wants AI agents to prove who they are with DNS

The Linux Foundation declared its intent to launch the Agent Name Service, an open standard that anchors AI agent identity to the operator's DNS domain through ACME-issued certificates and an append-only registration log. For pipelines that already lean on workload identity, it points at where agent provenance is heading.

Jun 23, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Checkmarx's pitch on its new SAST engine: the classifier in front of the queue is the product

Checkmarx unveiled a SAST engine that pairs a deterministic rules scanner with a security-trained LLM and a Findings Analysis Engine that triages true vs. false positives before developers see them. The CI/CD-relevant story is less the model and more the triage layer in front of the merge queue.

Jun 21, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Enterprise MCP adoption keeps outrunning its authorization layer

The Model Context Protocol has become the default way enterprises wire AI agents to internal tools, but the authorization layer between agent, protocol and downstream resource is still the part most platform teams are stitching together by hand.

Jun 19, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security

actions/checkout v7 refuses fork PR code in pull_request_target

GitHub shipped actions/checkout v7, which fails by default when a workflow triggered by pull_request_target or workflow_run tries to fetch the head of a fork's pull request. Same-repo PRs and the standard pull_request event are unaffected; a deliberately conspicuous opt-out exists for teams who really mean it.

Jun 18, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

GitHub Actions hands platform teams a workflow-trigger allow list

GitHub Actions is rolling out workflow execution protections in public preview at the enterprise, organization, and repository levels, letting administrators define who and what can trigger workflows. It's the platform-owned trigger gate the CI/CD industry has been quietly working toward for years.

Jun 18, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

HCP Packer's enforced provisioners turn golden-image policy into a contract teams can't quietly skip

HashiCorp has added enforced provisioners to HCP Packer, letting platform and security teams centrally pin mandatory build steps onto every downstream image rather than trusting that the wiki page got read. The mechanism is the easy part; deciding whether your org actually wants policy this loud is the harder one.

Jun 17, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Pinning every CI action to a commit SHA is becoming the new minimum

A new write-up from the Cilium maintainers lays out a concrete playbook for locking down CI/CD dependencies, full-SHA pinning for every action, digest-pinned containers, vendored Go modules, and Renovate with a release-age cooldown. The pattern matters even if you do not ship eBPF for a living.

Jun 16, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Docker Content Trust gets a sunset date. The harder question is what you sign with next.

Docker has published a formal retirement plan for Docker Content Trust and the Notary v1 service at notary.docker.io, ten years after DCT shipped. The migration is mostly mechanical, the strategic question, about whether anyone downstream was actually verifying anything, is the part the guide cannot answer for you.

Jun 16, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

The 'OSS ingredients are basically safe' assumption just got a 52,000-package counter-example

Chainguard says it scanned 52,000 open-source packages used by AI-generated and 'vibe-coded' applications and concluded the long-running default, that the ingredients are safe to assume trustworthy, no longer holds. For CI/CD owners, that pushes dependency scrutiny upstream of the build.

Jun 16, 2026 · Tomás Vega