All news with #ci/cd security tag

Over 10,000 Docker Hub Images Expose Live Secrets Globally

🔒 A November scan by threat intelligence firm Flare found 10,456 Docker Hub images exposing credentials, including live API tokens for AI models and production systems. The leaks span about 101 organizations — from SMBs to a Fortune 500 company and a major national bank — and often stem from mistakes like committed .env files, hardcoded tokens, and Docker manifests. Flare urges immediate revocation of exposed keys, centralized secrets management, and active SDLC scanning to prevent prolonged abuse.

How Staff+ Security Engineers Can Force-Multiply Impact

🔧 Staff+ security engineers should move from being individual problem-solvers to force multipliers by enabling others, automating enforcement, and shaping security strategy. The article recommends practical mechanisms—policy-as-code, paved paths, mentorship trees—and disciplined delegation to scale impact. It urges embedding security via shift-left practices, reusable reference architectures, and cautious AI-assisted tooling. During incidents, act as an orchestrator, set inflection points, and bridge teams with leadership to preserve strategic influence.

Automating NIS2 Compliance: Move from Paperwork to Code

🛡️ The EU directive NIS2, in force in Germany since 06 December 2025, risks becoming a paperwork-heavy exercise unless organisations adopt automation and DevSecOps. The article argues security must be planned and enforced by technology, using Infrastructure as Code, policies-as-code and CI/CD pipelines so controls and evidence (commits, pipeline logs, SBOMs) are revision-proof. Solutions such as CIEM, CNAPP and SIEM can centralise IAM, vulnerability and incident data so auditability is produced by the platform rather than by post-hoc Word documents.

The CISO Paradox: Enabling Innovation, Managing Risk

🔐 CISOs must stop being the “department of no” and enable rapid product delivery without introducing new risks. Security needs to be embedded early through close collaboration with product teams, clear business-aligned risk tolerances, and pragmatic guardrails. Assign a dedicated security partner to each product, integrate CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code enforcement, and automate policy checks so safe changes proceed while risky ones fail with actionable remediation.

The CISO’s Paradox: Enabling Innovation While Managing Risk

🔒 Security leaders must shift from gatekeeper to partner, embedding practical risk controls early in product lifecycles so teams can deliver fast without exposing the business. By defining business-language risk tolerances, standardizing identity and logging, and automating guardrails in CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, governance becomes an accelerator rather than a bottleneck. Pre-vetted, secure-by-default templates, runtime shielding and risk-based telemetry make the secure path easier for developers while preserving production resilience.

Arista and Palo Alto Expand Zero-Trust for Data Centers

🔒 Arista Networks and Palo Alto Networks extended their partnership to deliver a framework for zero-trust inside the data center. The integration pairs Arista’s Multi-Domain Segmentation Services (MSS) fabric and full network visibility with Palo Alto’s next-generation firewall (NGFW) to enable an inspect-once, enforce-many model. CloudVision MSS supports dynamic quarantine and can offload trusted high-bandwidth 'elephant flows' after inspection, while the NGFW triggers hardware line-rate isolation when threats are detected. Unified policy orchestration and Arista Validated Designs (AVD) with AVA automation add network-as-code and CI/CD-friendly deployment so NetOps and SecOps can scale independently.

Finding Salt failures: blaming commits to speed releases

🔍 Cloudflare explains how they accelerated triage and reduced release delays for Salt-managed configuration changes across thousands of servers. They implemented a local job cache on minions to retain job results, built a Salt Blame execution module to correlate failed highstates with commits, releases and external outages, and automated hierarchical triage from chat. These changes removed repetitive SSH-and-log workflows, made root-cause attribution self-service for SREs, and yielded a measurable >5% reduction in time lost to Salt-related release delays while enabling ongoing analytics and feedback.

Typosquatted npm Package Targets GitHub Actions Builds

⚠️ A malicious npm package, @acitons/artifact, impersonated the legitimate @actions/artifact module and was uploaded on November 7 to specifically target GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows. It included a post-install hook that executed an obfuscated shell-script named "harness," which fetched a JavaScript payload (verify.js) to detect GitHub runners and exfiltrate build tokens. Using those tokens the attacker could publish artifacts and impersonate GitHub; the package accrued over 260,000 downloads across six versions before detection.

Cloudflare Introduces Isolated Testing for Workflows

🧪 Cloudflare has added local, isolated testing APIs for Workflows, enabling developers to introspect and mock workflow instances using the new cloudflare:test module. Available with @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers v0.9.0+, the APIs (introspectWorkflowInstance and introspectWorkflow) let tests run offline inside the Workers runtime, mock step results and events, and preserve isolated storage for reliable, deterministic tests. This improves debug visibility, reduces flaky tests, and lets teams assert on intermediate steps without hitting external systems.

Identity Failures Now Top Source of Cloud Risk in 2025

🔒 ReliaQuest's Q3 2025 telemetry found identity-related weaknesses were responsible for 44% of true‑positive cloud alerts, including excessive permissions, misconfigured roles and credential abuse. The report warns credentials and cloud keys often appear on crime markets — sometimes for as little as $2 — while 99% of cloud identities are reportedly over‑privileged, enabling stealthy access. It also highlights how rapid DevOps deployments can replicate legacy vulnerabilities and urges adoption of short‑lived credentials, strict least‑privilege controls and CI/CD security automation.

Modern Software Supply-Chain Attacks and Impact Today

🔒 Modern supply-chain incidents like the Chalk and Debug hijacks show that impact goes far beyond direct financial theft. Response teams worldwide paused work, scanned environments, and executed remediation efforts even though researchers at Socket Security traced the attackers' on-chain haul to roughly $600. The larger cost is operational disruption, repeated investigations, and erosion of trust across OSS ecosystems. Organizations must protect people, registries, and CI/CD pipelines to contain downstream contamination.

OpenAI Unveils Aardvark: GPT-5 Agent for Code Security

🔍 OpenAI has introduced Aardvark, an agentic security researcher powered by GPT-5 that autonomously scans source code repositories to identify vulnerabilities, assess exploitability, and propose targeted patches that can be reviewed by humans. Embedded in development pipelines, the agent monitors commits and incoming changes continuously, prioritizes threats by severity and likely impact, and attempts controlled exploit verification in sandboxed environments. Using OpenAI Codex for patch generation, Aardvark is in private beta and has already contributed to the discovery of multiple CVEs in open-source projects.

PhantomRaven campaign floods npm with credential theft

🐦 The PhantomRaven campaign distributes dozens of malicious npm packages that steal authentication tokens, CI/CD secrets, and GitHub credentials. Discovered by Koi Security, the activity began in August and involved 126 packages with over 86,000 downloads. The packages use a remote dynamic dependency mechanism to fetch and execute payloads during npm install, enabling stealthy credential exfiltration. Developers should verify package provenance and avoid unvetted LLM-generated package suggestions.

Developers Leading AI Transformation Across Enterprise

💡 Developers are accelerating AI adoption across industries by using copilots and agentic workflows to compress the software lifecycle from idea to operation. Microsoft positions tools like GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI Foundry to connect models and agents to enterprise systems, enabling continuous modernization, migration, and telemetry-driven product loops. The shift moves developers from manual toil to intent-driven design, with agents handling upgrades, tests, and routine maintenance while humans retain judgment and product vision.

Trustworthy Oracle Architecture for Enterprise DLT

🔒 DZ BANK and Google Cloud present a blueprint for delivering trustworthy off‑chain data to smart contracts, addressing a key barrier to enterprise DLT adoption. The design pairs Google Cloud secure global infrastructure with DZ BANK’s deterministic financial protocols to guarantee data correctness at source, integrity in transit, and timely delivery. The Smart Derivative Contract (SDC) use case demonstrates deterministic valuation, automated margining, and cryptographic attestation of oracle outputs. Production controls such as Binary Authorization, Private Service Connect, Confidential Space (TEE), and TLS are used to mitigate software supply‑chain, transport, and runtime threats.

AI Coding Assistants Elevate Deep Security Risks Now

⚠️ Research and expert interviews indicate that AI coding assistants cut trivial syntax errors but increase more costly architectural and privilege-related flaws. Apiiro found AI-generated code produced fewer shallow bugs yet more misconfigurations, exposed secrets, and larger multi-file pull requests that overwhelm reviewers. Experts urge preserving human judgment, adding integrated security tooling, strict review policies, and traceability for AI outputs to avoid automating risk at scale.

FabCon Vienna: Enterprise-ready Microsoft Fabric updates

📢 At FabCon Vienna, Microsoft unveiled a broad set of Microsoft Fabric enhancements to accelerate data-rich agents and enterprise adoption. Key updates include expanded OneLake shortcuts and mirroring (preview for Oracle and BigQuery), a preview Graph database and Maps for geospatial context, developer tooling (MCP, Extensibility Toolkit, CI/CD) and strengthened security controls like Azure Private Link and customer-managed keys. These features focus on zero-copy data access, governance, and operational scalability for mission-critical workloads.

Marine Corps Cuts ATO Delays with DevOps and Agile

🚀 Operation StormBreaker transformed how Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) develops and authorizes IT. By creating a Marine Corps–authorized landing zone in AWS and pairing it with the Department of the Navy’s RAISE platform, MCCS implemented CI/CD pipelines and automated security checks to push security left. The result: ATOs that once took 18 months can now be granted in a day, saving roughly $1M per system and improving digital services for Marines and families.

Max Severity Argo CD API Flaw Exposes Repo Credentials

🔒 A critical Argo CD vulnerability (CVE-2025-55190) allows API tokens with even low project-level get permissions to access API endpoints and retrieve repository credentials. Rated CVSS v3 10.0, the flaw bypasses isolation protections and can expose usernames and passwords used to access Git repositories. The issue affects all versions up to 2.13.0 and was fixed in 3.1.2, 3.0.14, 2.14.16, and 2.13.9; administrators should upgrade immediately.

Supply-Chain Attacks on Nx and React Expose Dev Credentials

🔒 A coordinated supply-chain campaign compromised multiple npm packages — most notably the Nx build system — and used post-install scripts to harvest developer assets across enterprise environments. Wiz found the malware weaponized local AI CLI tools to exfiltrate filesystem contents, tokens, SSH keys, and environment variables. Separately, JFrog uncovered obfuscated malicious React packages designed to steal Chrome data. Vendors removed the packages and recommend rotating credentials, removing affected versions, and auditing developer and CI systems.