Supply chain attacks now fuel a 'self-reinforcing' cybercrime economy

Group-IB warns that cybercriminals are industrializing supply-chain compromise, chaining open-source package poisoning, credential theft, OAuth abuse, and phishing to scale downstream breaches and ransomware. The report highlights recent supply-chain incidents, predicts AI will accelerate discovery and exploitation of vendor and CI/CD weaknesses, and urges organizations to treat third parties as extensions of their attack surface with supply-chain threat modeling and automated dependency checks.