Australia nabs two TeamPCP suspects tied to global supply-chain hack spree
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Australian Federal Police arrested two men linked to TeamPCP for a nine‑month, global supply‑chain campaign that infected over 1,000 organizations by compromising CI/CD pipelines and downstream packages like Trivy; the suspects face multiple charges and potentially decades in prison if convicted, with investigators noting credential theft and a canister-based mechanism helping the malware persist.
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