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The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast

#205 - Intel Chat: OPSEC FAIL, Manifest Confusion & Github Actions

Apr 1, 2025
29:35

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some cutting-edge intel coming out of LimaCharlie's community.

  • On March 24, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported a significant OPSEC failure involving U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who allegedly sent him detailed U.S. military plans over Signal—an encrypted messaging app—on March 15.
  • A newly discovered supply chain attack on the npm ecosystem is targeting developers by backdooring local packages through a process known as “manifest confusion.”
  • Unit 42 researchers at Palo Alto Networks have uncovered an ongoing software supply chain attack targeting GitHub repositories via malicious GitHub Actions workflows.

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