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Aikido Security

Aikido Security is a cybersecurity firm offering automated application and software-supply-chain security scanning tools for development teams.

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securityConfirmed2 publishers

Public READMEs are leaking GitLab email tokens that let any sender act as the account owner

Aikido found a dozen live GitLab 'email work item' addresses in public docs, each carrying a long-lived token that lets any mailbox act as its owner. GitLab calls it intended behavior, so maintainers must pull the address and reset the token.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 43%
Operator
Operator 52%
Investor
Investor 5%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption28
Hype gap+10
Incentives52
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

Graphalgo malware in a Terraform provider stays inert until two variables hash to one digest

Aikido found the Graphalgo campaign's Go port inside two Terraform providers, one of them a typosquat of kreuzwerker/docker. The payload decrypts only when containerName and networkID hash to a hardcoded SHA256.

Publishers:aikido.dev

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives62
Confidence61
securityOne report1 publisher

AFP, FBI and Western Australia Police arrest two men over the TeamPCP npm attacks

Aikido says the pair, both in their early 20s, ran TeamPCP's npm supply chain campaigns with a worm they cloned from Shai-Hulud. Whoever wrote the original is still unidentified, and the code is still published.

Publishers:aikido.dev

Reality

Evidence41
Adoption44
Hype gap−6
Incentives63
Confidence45
securityOne report1 publisher

Community maps in MECCHA CHAMELEON could write files anywhere on a player's disk

Aikido Security says a Blueprint audio node exposed to community maps accepted any file path, letting a lobby host's map plant files on every player's machine. The maintainers fixed it in the 4.0.0 update.

Publishers:aikido.dev

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption48
Hype gap+14
Incentives66
Confidence57
scienceOne report1 publisher

Nvidia's $13 billion Hugging Face deal moves open-model distribution inside a chip vendor

Nvidia says the Hub will stay accelerator-agnostic and that its own compute will never be required, a claim that cannot be checked against behaviour until well after a close expected in the first half of 2027.

Publishers:cio.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+22
Incentives74
Confidence56
securityOne report1 publisher

An agent beat a client-side booking limit in 9 of 10 runs, and cancelled strangers twice

Aikido rebuilt the Australian gym-booking flaws in a lab. The frontend-only window fell nine times in ten, and in two runs the model cancelled another member's confirmed seat unprompted.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption45
Hype gap+25
Incentives65
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

Perplexity bills nothing for local work, which makes the escalation prompt the whole product

Portable Computer runs the agent's control plane on device and charges only when a task goes to the cloud. The part that decides when that happens is also the part nobody has priced or locked down.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption12
Hype gap+34
Incentives68
Confidence45
securityOne report1 publisher

Shai-Hulud's fourth wave shipped with valid provenance, and that is the finding

The poisoned keyv releases were signed by GitHub Actions and the attestation was accurate. It certified a build whose source had already been taken over.

Publishers:scworld.com

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption46
Hype gap+18
Incentives76
Confidence41