Risky Biz Podcast: AI Agents Are Raising the Stakes for Software Supply Chain Security

The article discusses a surge in software supply chain attacks, where threat actors compromise popular open source packages and leverage trusted development workflows to distribute malicious code. The rise of AI coding agents exacerbates the risk by automatically pulling in dependencies without sufficient review, increasing the speed and scale of potential compromise. Attackers are targeting development tools such as package registries, IDE extensions, and source repositories, often evading traditional security measures.

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