Borrowed trust: the week’s key cybersecurity tactic

Colleagues, I’d like to highlight an important cyber snapshot from this week: attacks once again disguised themselves as routine actions.

- npm packages and VS Code extensions were used to steal data and enable remote access.
- Fake Android apps turned phones into surveillance and ad-serving tools.
- GhostCommit showed how prompt injection can be hidden even inside an image for an AI agent.
- CISA warned about risks to PLC and OT environments, while GitHub and PyPI tightened upload rules.

Why it matters: threat actors are increasingly exploiting trust in familiar tools, not just vulnerabilities.

How are you currently validating your supply chain and AI-agent behavior?

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