The readiness paradox: Why a false sense of cyber confidence is becoming a liability

This CyberScoop roundup highlights a wave of high‑risk software supply chain and vulnerability‑driven incidents and trends: AI is expanding the attack surface and generating alert fatigue even as vendors release agentic red‑team tools (Microsoft’s Rampart and Clarity). Multiple supply‑chain and developer‑tool compromises were reported — poisoned VS Code extensions led to GitHub internal repository exfiltration, hundreds of npm packages were backdoored by Mini Shai‑Hulud, and a large CISA credential leak exposed sensitive secrets. Verizon’s DBIR shows exploits became the top entry point for bre