#ai-driven noise

Taking down a sprawling malware operation once signaled progress in securing the open-source ecosystem. Now, it barely registers. The GlassWorm campaign disruption comes at a moment when attackers can quickly reconstitute, and defenders are increasingly grappling with a new challenge: distinguishing real threats from automated noise. “I think coordinated actions, like GlassWorm, can sever control, significantly increase attacker costs, buy time for remediation, and signal the possibility of a fightback,” said Agnidipta Sarkar, chief evangelist at ColorTokens. “But most takedowns are temporary actions in a long fight.” The CrowdStrike-led takedown, conducted alongside Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, disrupted infrastructure linked to the campaign that had poisoned hundreds of repositories with malicious packages targeting developers. A day after the takedown, in an independent development, the OSV database withdrew 157 malware reports after maintainers determined the submissions