The 3CX Supply-Chain Attack: When Signed Updates Turn Against You
3CX’s signed desktop app shipped a trojan after its build pipeline fell to an upstream vendor compromise — the first documented double supply-chain attack.
GitHub’s OAuth supply chain: the Heroku Token Heist That Reached npm
Attackers stole GitHub integration tokens from Heroku and Travis CI, pivoted into npm, and downloaded ~109,000 publishing credentials.
npm Hijacking Wave: coa, rc, node-ipc and Stolen Maintainers
Popular packages with dormant maintainers pushed info-stealers through postinstall scripts. The registry was fine; the accounts were not.
Kaseya VSA Ransomware: 60 MSPs, 1,500 Businesses, One Friday
REvil turned Kaseya’s remote-management platform into a mass-encryption weapon, hitting ~60 MSPs and up to 1,500 downstream businesses days before a patch could land.
Codecov Breach: The CI Script That Leaked Build Secrets for Months
A tampered Codecov Bash Uploader quietly shipped CI environment variables — cloud keys, tokens, signing material — to attackers for two months. The curl-pipe-bash trust model dissected, and how build supply-chain security was rewritten after.
SolarWinds SUNBURST: Inside the Supply-Chain Attack That Rewrote Security
The full incident file on the SolarWinds SUNBURST supply-chain attack: how SVR-linked actors compromised the Orion build pipeline, trojanized signed updates reaching 18,000 customers, hand-picked under 100 targets including nine US federal agencies, and forged SAML tokens to persist. Includes the technical anatomy, timeline, impact numbers, and the build-pipeline hardening lessons that still define defender programs in 2026.
2020–2021: SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline & the Ransomware Wave
The era attackers learned to poison the supply chain itself: a backdoor inside the software updates of 18,000 organizations, and ransomware crews bold enough to shut down a country’s fuel pipeline and its meat supply.