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Alleged TeamPCP Hackers Charged in Australia Over Major Supply Chain Attacks
Two men charged in Australia for alleged role in TeamPCP cybercrime group, which compromised open-source security scanners and AI gateway.
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Two men charged in Australia for alleged role in TeamPCP cybercrime group, which compromised open-source security scanners and AI gateway.

The article discusses the challenge of vetting AI code, particularly in open-source software, due to the rapid generation of dependencies by AI coding assistants. This has led to a vulnerability known as slopsquatting, where attackers register dummy package names on publi…

GitHub and PyPI have introduced time-based defenses against supply-chain attacks. Dependabot now has a 72-hour cooldown, and PyPI rejects new files uploaded to releases older than 14 days.