Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

Trivy vulnerability scanner breach pushed infostealer via GitHub Actions

The Trivy vulnerability scanner was compromised in a supply-chain attack by threat actors known as TeamPCP, which distributed credential-stealing malware through official releases and GitHub Actions.

Trivy vulnerability scanner backdoored with credential stealer in supply chain attack

Attackers have compromised the widely used open-source Trivy vulnerability scanner, injecting credential-stealing malware into official releases and GitHub Actions used by thousands of CI/CD workflows. The breach could trigger a cascade of additional supply-chain compromises if impacted projects and organizations don’t rotate their secrets immediately. The attack, disclosed by Trivy maintainers today, results from an earlier compromise announced…

Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

Hackers have compromised virtually all versions of Aqua Security’s widely used Trivy vulnerability scanner in an ongoing supply chain attack that could have wide-ranging consequences for developers and the organizations that use them. Trivy maintainer Itay Shakury confirmed the compromise on Friday, following rumors and a thread, since deleted by the attackers, discussing the incident. The attack began in the early hours of Thursday. When it was…

What happened with Trivy’s supply-chain compromise?

Trivy supply chain attack: widespread scanner compromise and self spreading malware A security incident involving Trivy was described as part of a broader supply chain compromise affecting the Trivy ecosystem. Reporting indicates that attackers inserted malicious artifacts into Trivy related…

Trivy Supply Chain Attack Triggers Self-Spreading CanisterWorm Across 47 npm Packages

The threat actors behind the supply chain attack targeting the popular Trivy scanner are suspected to be conducting follow-on attacks that have led to the compromise of a large number of npm packages with a previously undocumented self-propagating worm dubbed CanisterWorm. The name is a reference to the fact that the malware uses an ICP canister, which refers to tamperproof smart contracts on This article has been indexed from The Hacker News …