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Dimitri Stiliadis, CTO from Endor Labs, discusses the recent tj-actions/changed-files supply chain attack, where a compromised GitHub Action exposed CI/CD secrets. We explore the impressive multi-stage attack vector and the broader often-overlooked vulnerabilities in our CI/CD pipelines, emphasizing the need to treat these build systems with production-level security rigor instead of ignoring them. Episode Links Dimitri’s Linkedin Endor Labs Harden-Runner detection: tj-actions/changed-files action is compromised Unit 42 tj-actions analysis This episode is also available as a podcast, search for “Open Source Security” on your favorite podcast player. ...

I got to chat with Lars about a new CI/CD system he’s been working on called Ambient. It sounds really cool and does some very clever things today, with even more things planned in the future. We also spend some time discussing a project he works on called Radicle, a distributed Git forge. It feels like having decentralized infrastructure might be more important than it’s ever been, for some reason. ...

When I started Open Source Security I knew one of those topics that could use more attention was the security of CI/CD systems. All the talk about securing the supply chain seems to almost exclusively focus on the development stage as well as the deployment stage. It seems like there’s not enough attention happening to the build stage (spoiler: most of the successful attacks have happened at this stage). When François Proulx reached out to chat about CD/CD systems, I couldn’t say yes fast enough. ...