Mandiant's findings say the intrusion never reached Checkmarx One or production AWS, and that answers the vendor's question rather than the one a customer has about what a build box pulled in late March.
Publishers:checkmarx.com
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives65
- Confidence45
All seven end in arbitrary code execution on the controller and all are fixed in one Script Security release, so the work is finding out which version of it each of your controllers actually runs.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption30
- Hype gap−5
- Incentives30
- Confidence50
The reductions run deepest on the largest machines. That redoes the arithmetic that sent heavy jobs to hardware you own. The per-minute charge GitHub proposed for self-hosted runners still has no new date.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption52
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives72
- Confidence57
One team's audit found a single pool labelled linux-docker scheduling outside contributors' builds onto the same agents that held internal deploy credentials, an arrangement that sat outside anything a controller permission model was built to check.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption21
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives33
- Confidence41
One practitioner's account of moving three Jenkins fleets onto AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity lists the same mistakes every time, and two of them leave the build lights green.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives28
- Confidence44
A platform team put a dashboard, idempotent Ansible and Prometheus over 150+ Jenkins instances instead of replatforming. The bill was 20 months, and the savings are still unmeasured.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives68
- Confidence33
The queue was a budget cap wearing an engineering costume. Moving 22 of 34 repositories to GitHub Actions bought sub-minute starts and a bill that had to be tuned back down.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption52
- Hype gap−9
- Incentives34
- Confidence41
Wiz says a TeamCity honeypot exposing JDWP was mining Monero within hours, and GreyNoise counted more than 6,000 unique IPs scanning for the protocol in 90 days.
Reality
- Evidence63
- Adoption52
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives70
- Confidence58
Allure-Katalon Bridge fills a gap Katalon never shipped, installing by copying eight files into a project. The interesting part is stable history IDs, not the installer.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence42
SOCRadar's record-level data puts 95 percent of identified victims before the poisoned LiteLLM packages ever hit PyPI. Anyone who rotated only what LiteLLM touched is still exposed.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption68
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives66
- Confidence55