A malicious campaign by North Korean state actors saw a malicious npm package dependency slipped into a crypto trading agent by an AI coding agent, according to a new report by ReversingLabs. The incident highlights a troubling new frontier in software supply chain attacks: hackers targeting developers…and the AI tools writing their code.
GitGuardian’s latest Secrets Sprawl report found more than 28 million new secrets exposed via public GitHub commits in 2025, a 34% increase over 2024 and the largest annual jump the company has recorded. The spike reflects a broader transformation in software creation, as AI tools lower the barrier to coding.
Stranger Things concept of the “Upside Down” is a useful way to think about the risks lurking in the software we all rely on. A new report from ReversingLabs shines a light into that dark world.
Cybersecurity researcher Noam Moshe of Claroty met up with The Security Ledger Podcast at this year’s Black Hat Briefings to discuss his presentation on critical Axis IP camera vulnerabilities that could let hackers spy, manipulate video feeds, and pivot into sensitive networks—and what organizations can do to defend against these (and other) IoT threats.
ReversingLabs’ 2025 Software Supply Chain Security Report finds that security flaws in commercial and open source code are epidemic as hackers target supply chains including those for cryptocurrency and AI in a play for access to sensitive data and IT assets.
