Threats Tagged 'trivy'

On March 19, 2026, Trivy, an open-source vulnerability scanner, was compromised in a sophisticated CI/CD supply chain attack. Threat actors, identified as TeamPCP, injected credential-stealing malware into official Trivy releases, affecting the core binary and GitHub Actions. The attack exploited mutable tags and commit identity spoofing on GitHub. The malware performed extensive credential harvesting, targeting cloud providers, Kubernetes secrets, and various application credentials. Microsoft Defender provides detection and investigation capabilities for this threat. Recommended mitigations include updating to safe versions, hardening CI/CD pipelines, enforcing least privilege, protecting secrets, and leveraging attack path analysis to reduce lateral movement risks.

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A new supply chain attack targeting Trivy has compromised 75 out of 76 version tags in the aquasecurity/trivy-action GitHub repository. The attacker force-pushed these tags to serve malicious payloads, effectively turning trusted version references into a distribution mechanism for an infostealer. The malicious code executes within GitHub Actions runners, targeting sensitive data in CI/CD environments. It harvests secrets from runner process memory and the filesystem, encrypts the collected data, and exfiltrates it to an attacker-controlled endpoint or a fallback GitHub-based channel. The attack's scope is significant, potentially affecting over 10,000 workflow files on GitHub referencing this action.

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