Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

A significantly evolved version of the Shai-Hulud malware now tracked as Sha1-Hulud has been discovered with over 800 packages affected, now featuring persistent backdoor capabilities through compromised GitHub Actions runners and enhanced multi-cloud credential harvesting.

SAST (Static Application Security Testing) tools analyze an application’s source code to identify potential security vulnerabilities without executing the code. They are crucial for finding security flaws early in the development lifecycle, helping developers address issues before they become more costly and difficult to fix. Unlike dynamic analysis techniques, SAST operates without executing the program, focusing entirely on the static codebase.

Today, we’re introducing our Risk Reduction Dashboard. This is a new way for security leaders to quantify their AppSec program’s impact, prioritize high-value fixes, and prove ROI with data-backed insights that go beyond raw vulnerability counts.

“72% of organizations use AI in business functions — but only 13% feel ready to secure it.” That gap, between adoption and preparedness, explains why traditional AppSec approaches aren’t enough.

Over this last year, we’ve seen significant attacks like the Shai-Hulud worm, the Nx build system compromise, and secrets being leaked to public GitHub Actions logs via the tj-actions/changed-files compromise, but I could spend the entirety of this article only listing different attacks, let alone talking about them.

Application Security Testing (AST) services use automated tools and manual techniques to find and fix security vulnerabilities in software, integrating security into the entire development lifecycle (SDLC) to prevent threats and protect applications from attacks. Key services include Static Application Security Testing (SAST) for code-level analysis, Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) for runtime testing, and Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) which combines both.