AI is changing the economics of software supply chain attacks
· Source: venturebeat.com
In short
Attackers are shifting upstream to target CI/CD pipelines, package registries, and AI agent tooling, where a single compromised open-source package can reach tens of thousands of downstream organizations at near-zero marginal cost. Chainguard CISO Quincy Castro argues that build servers and runners are largely undefended, and that citizen developers using AI coding tools widen the attack surface. He calls for moving supply chain security ahead of incident response, using verified provenance, signed artifacts, and hardened development environments to keep compromised packages out in the first place.
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Tags: supply chain, cybersecurity, CI/CD, provenance, open source, DevOps