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Lightweight LLM-Driven Process Alerted Elastic's Security Team, Says James SpiteriElastic Security Labs quickly spotted the unfolding supply-chain attack that backdoored the popular JavaScript library Axios, thanks to a lightweight, AI-driven tool a researcher created to assess if repository changes looked malicious. Elastic's James Spiteri says further use cases abound.

Two weeks ago, a suspected North Korean threat actor slipped malicious code into a package within Axios, a widely used JavaScript library. The immediate concern was the blast radius: roughly 100 million weekly downloads spanning enterprises, startups, and government systems. But beyond the sheer scale, the attack’s speed was just as worrisome – a stark […] The post Why the Axios attack proves AI is mandatory for supply chain security appeared first on CyberScoop.