The Trivy vulnerability scanner was compromised in a supply-chain attack by threat actors known as TeamPCP, which distributed credential-stealing malware through official releases and GitHub Actions. Trivy is a popular security scanner that helps identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed secrets across containers, Kubernetes environments, code repositories, and cloud infrastructure. Because developers and security teams commonly use it, it is a high-value target for attackers to steal sensitive authentication secrets. The breach was first disclosed by security researcher Paul McCarty, who warned that Trivy version 0.69.4 had been backdoored, with malicious container images and GitHub releases published to users. Further analysis by Socket and later by Wiz determined that…