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oncallthrowyesterday at 7:10 PM1 replyview on HN

I think it's only a matter of time at this point before a devastating supply chain attack occurs.

Supply-chain security is such a dumpster fire, and threat actors are realising that they can use LLMs to organize such attacks.


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dgellowtoday at 1:25 PM

Not sure what you mean by devastating, but supply chain attacks occur pretty much daily worldwide and LLMs have been used by attackers since multiple years at that point. Defending against supply chain threats is a pretty hard area to iterate and things are slow to change. For example pypi only supports trusted publishers since 2023 IIRC, and lots of large companies are still not consistently using that option