Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

The Polinrider and Glassworm Supply Chain Offensive: A Forensic Post-Mortem

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Industrialised Software Ecosystem Subversion and the Weaponisation of Invisible Unicode Executive Summary The early months of 2026 marked a pivotal escalation in the sophistication of software supply chain antagonism, characterised by a coordinated, multi-ecosystem offensive targeting the global development community. Central to this campaign was the Polinrider operation, a sprawling initiative attributed to Democratic People’s … Read more

The Axios Supply Chain Compromise: A Post-Mortem on Infrastructure Trust, Nation-State Proxy Warfare, and the Fragility of Modern JavaScript Ecosystems

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TL:DR: This is a Developing Situation and I will try to update it as we dissect more. If you’d prefer the remediation protocol directly, you can head to the bottom. In case you want to understand the anatomy of the attack and background, I have made a video that can be a quick explainer. The … Read more

The LiteLLM Supply Chain Cascade: Empirical Lessons in AI Credential Harvesting and the Future of Infrastructure Assurance

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TL:DR: This is an Empirical Study and could be quite long for non-researchers. If you’d prefer the remediation protocol directly, you can head to the bottom. In case you want to understand the anatomy of the attack and background, I have made a video that can be a quick explainer. Background and Summary: The compromise … Read more

Supply-Chain Extortion Lessons from the Pornhub-Mixpanel Incident

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When the Weakest API Becomes the Loudest Breach. Key Takeaways for Security Leaders You can giggle about the subject if you want. The headlines almost invite it. An adult platform. Premium users. Leaked “activity data.” It sounds like internet tabloid fodder. But behind the jokes is a breach that should make every security leader deeply … Read more

Defence Tech at Risk: Palantir, Anduril, and Govini in the New AI Arms Race

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A Chink in Palantir and Anduril’s Armour? Govini and Others Are Unsheathing the Sword When Silicon Valley Code Marches to War A U.S. Army Chinook rises over Gyeonggi Province, carrying not only soldiers and equipment but streams of battlefield telemetry, encrypted packets of sight, sound and position. Below, sensors link to vehicles, commanders to drones, … Read more

The Npm Breach: What It Reveals About Software Supply Chain Security

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When a Single Phishing Click Becomes a Global Vulnerability – Meet the Supply Chain’s Weakest Link 1. Phishing-Driven Attack on npm Packages On 8 September 2025, maintainer Qix fell victim to a highly convincing phishing email from [email protected], which led to unauthorised password reset and takeover of his account. Attackers injected malicious code into at … Read more

Oracle Cloud Breach Is a Transitive Trust Timebomb : Here’s How to Defuse It

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The Oracle Cloud breach didn’t just expose 140,000 tenants, it revealed the silent danger of transitive trust across SaaS ecosystems. This post analyses the breach, outlines what could’ve been done, and offers a practical response guide for engineering and security teams. Featuring tools, trust graphs, and lessons for the road ahead.

JP Morgan’s Warning: Ignoring Security Could End Your SaaS Startup

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The AI-driven SaaS boom, powered by code generation, agentic workflows and rapid orchestration layers, is producing 5-person teams with £10M+ in ARR. This breakneck scale and productivity is impressive, but it’s also hiding a dangerous truth: many of these startups are operating without a secure software supply chain. In most cases, these teams either lack … Read more

InfoSec’s Big Problem: Too Much Hope in One Cyber Database

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The Myth of a Single Cyber Superpower: Why Global Infosec Can’t Rely on One Nation’s Database What the collapse of MITRE’s CVE funding reveals about fragility, sovereignty, and the silent geopolitics of vulnerability management I. The Day the Coordination Engine Stalled On April 16, 2025, MITRE’s CVE program—arguably the most critical coordination layer in global … Read more

Do You Know What’s in Your Supply Chain? The Case for Better Security

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I recently read an interesting report by CyCognito on the top 3 vulnerabilities on third-party products and it sparked my interest to reexamine the supply chain risks in software engineering. This article is an attempt at that. The Vulnerability Trifecta in Third-Party Products The CyCognito report identifies three critical areas where third-party products introduce significant … Read more