LastPass 2022: The Dev-Environment Breach That Came Back
August’s ‘contained’ developer-account compromise returned in December as stolen vault backups. Inside the two-act breach.
Heroku Held the Keys: Anatomy of a Vendor-Token Breach
GitHub’s OAuth tokens lived in Heroku’s infrastructure. One compromised CI cache later, an ecosystem learned where vendor tokens really live.
AST09 & AST10: Governance and Cross-Platform Reuse
The finale of our OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 series. AST09: one-line skill installs that no inventory, IAM system, or SOC ever sees — 800+ malicious skills circulating, 83% of organizations deploying agentic AI, 29% ready. AST10: porting skills across platforms silently drops manifests, permissions, and risk tiers. With the Bilateral Receipt Pattern, EU AI Act Article 12, and the Universal Skill Format proposal.
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AST07 & AST08: Update Drift and Weak Scanning
The two post-deployment risks in the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10: AST07 malicious updates riding channels with no signatures, pinning or freeze mode (40,000 exposed instances in 24 hours), and AST08 scanners that structurally lag base64, zero-width, pure-natural-language and .pyc evasion. Digest pinning, PASS/FAIL/INCOMPLETE pipelines, and Unicode strip ranges — dissected.
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The Pipeline Is the Attack: AST02 Skill Supply Chain Compromise, Explained
AST02 of the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 maps attacks on the skill distribution layer: registry flooding, dependency confusion, config files that execute on clone (CVE-2025-59536, CVE-2026-21852), and maintainer takeover. With Trail of Bits' evidence that every marketplace scanner can be bypassed.
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AST01: Malicious Agent Skills (ClawHavoc Case Study)
AST01 of the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 dissected: how ClawHavoc shipped 1,184 malicious skills from 12 accounts, why five of ClawHub's top seven downloads were malware, and how three lines of markdown exfiltrated SSH keys - with the full attack playbook and controls.
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Agent Skills Are the New npm: OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 Explained
The OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 maps the 10 risks of the AI-agent skill ecosystem - malicious skills, supply chain compromise, over-privileged manifests, metadata attacks, weak isolation, update drift, scanning gaps, governance failures and cross-platform reuse - with real 2026 evidence.
Marquis breach anatomy – one cracked firewall rippling across 74 banks
Marquis Data Breach: One SonicWall Firewall, 74 Banks, 672,075 Identities
Attackers entered Texas fintech Marquis through a SonicWall firewall and reached data for 700+ client banks - 672,075 identities, 74 institutions disrupted. The supply-chain anatomy and five break-points.
Node-IPC: When npm Dependencies Turn Hostile
Three versions of node-ipc (10.1.1-10.1.3) shipped a stealer backdoor - CVE-2026-44338 - harvesting SSH keys, AWS credentials and .npmrc from 1.2M-weekly-download installs via DNS tunneling and HTTPS C2. Technical breakdown and hardening guide.
Bleeding Llama: The Ollama CVE That Leaked AI Memory
Two AI security incidents in 48 hours: Bleeding Llama (CVE-2026-7482, CVSS 9.1) leaks full process memory from 300K+ exposed Ollama servers via malicious GGUF files, while a fake OpenAI Privacy Filter on Hugging Face hit #1 trending and delivered a Rust infostealer to 244K+ victims. Verification and patching playbook inside.
Living Off the LLM: How Attackers Weaponize AI Infrastructure in 2026
Three AI-adjacent CVEs hit CISA’s KEV catalog in one month: the LiteLLM proxy auth bypass exposing every prompt your org ever sent, a Linux kernel privesc reaching GPU training clusters, and PAN-OS as the beachhead. Living off the LLM, explained.
Education Under Attack: Canvas Breach & Carmen Shutdown
Two May 2026 incidents hit academia during finals week: the Instructure/Canvas LMS breach exposing thousands of institutions, and the Carmen platform shutdown after a national cybersecurity incident. The education sector's vendor graph is the new attack surface.