Supply Chain Attacks: How One Update Hit OpenAI

A routine software update. No phishing. No sketchy download. Then a security team finds the unthinkable: trusted code has been hijacked, and the breach rode in through the exact channels engineers rely on every day. I walk through the supply chain attacks that piled up across April and May 2026, including poisoned open source packages tied to TanStack and trojanized Daemon Tools installers, plus the rapid-fire abuse of major software registries like NPM, PyPI, and Docker Hub. The most ...