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AppSec Scanners Can Be Weaponized for Supply Chain Attacks

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Dark Reading ·

New research reveals that application security scanners integrated into the software supply chain can be exploited as attack vectors. Attackers can compromise these tools to gain footholds for downstream attacks. The findings highlight a growing risk in automated security tooling.

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This underscores a blind spot: the very tools meant to secure software can become liabilities if not hardened against compromise.
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