One command turns any open-source repo into an AI agent backdoor. OpenClaw proved no supply-chain scanner has a detection category for it

CLI-Anything generates SKILL.md files that AI agents trust and execute. Snyk found 13.4% of agent skills contain critical ...
Bleeping Computer

Apiiro unveils free scanner to detect malicious code merges

Security researchers at Apiiro have released two free, open-source tools designed to detect and block malicious code before they are added to software projects to curb supply chain attacks. The two ...
Dark Reading

Trellix Source Code Breach Highlights Growing Supply Chain Threats

Info is scant, but such breaches can reveal where a security product's controls are located and how detections are designed, ...
Scientific American

Open-source software has an invisible vulnerability. Hackers have found it

The danger in the code came from characters that are invisible to the human eye. In early March researchers at several security firms examined what looked like empty space and found hidden Unicode ...
Infosecurity Magazine

Trellix Reveals Unauthorized Access to Source Code

A leading US cybersecurity vendor has been breached by threat actors who managed to access its source code, it has been ...
Ars Technica

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.