I spent the first week of April reading three separate threat intelligence reports that, on the surface, had nothing in common. One covered a North Korean campaign that had published over 1,700 malicious packages across five open-source ecosystems. Another detailed a malware operation using a Zig-compiled binary to silently infect every IDE on a developer’s machine. The third walked through a cascading supply chain compromise that turned a trusted vulnerability scanner into a credential-harvesting weapon.
Three different threat actor sets. Three different technical approaches. One shared conclusion: developer workstations are now the highest-value initial access target in enterprise environm...