Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
In May 2026, every tag on actions-cool/issues-helper and 15 tags on maintain-one-comment were quietly moved to point at imposter commits that stole CI/CD credentials from runner memory. A look at the mutable-tag attack class and how to defeat it.
On 19 May 2026, three malicious versions of Microsoft's durabletask PyPI package were uploaded in a 35-minute window. The payload steals AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes credentials in under four seconds and ships a locale-gated rm -rf wiper.
GitHub disclosed on 20 May 2026 that a poisoned VS Code Marketplace extension was used to exfiltrate roughly 3,800 private repositories from enterprise engineering orgs, landing in the middle of a broader May 2026 wave of developer-surface supply chain attacks.
By May 2026 the first NIS2 enforcement actions are surfacing across early-transposing member states, starting with registration and notification failures. We analyze what authorities are pursuing first and how to build evidence that survives the escalation.
GreyNoise recorded ~597,000 SonicWall SonicOS scanning sessions on May 12, 2026, roughly 46x baseline. The pattern echoes the recon waves that preceded CVE-2026-0400's disclosure. Here is how to read the signal.
An insider sold The Gentlemen's internal 'Rocket' backend in May 2026, exposing affiliate structure, tooling, and negotiation logs of one of 2026's most prolific RaaS crews. Here is what the leak teaches defenders.
HHS published the HIPAA Security Rule NPRM in January 2025. Finalization is on the agenda for 2026. Covered entities and business associates need to start work now.
A months-long intrusion through a third-party vendor exposed medical records, government IDs, geolocation, and fingerprint and palm-print biometrics for at least 1.8 million people at the largest U.S. public health system. We unpack the dwell time and the third-party blast radius.
Disclosed May 17, 2026 with public PoC and in-the-wild activity, CVE-2026-42945 is a buffer overflow in NGINX's ngx_http_rewrite_module. It affects core NGINX and the ingress controllers that wrap it, putting cluster ingress in scope.
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