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Dan Lorenc

Co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, the software supply chain security company; a frequent commentator on open-source vulnerabilities and AI-driven security.

Known aliases

  • Lorenc
  • @lorenc_dan

Current stories

productConfirmed4 publishers

Chainguard sells frontier-model flaw hunting as a service its own staff run for customers

Chainguard unveiled Harness, which has frontier models such as Claude Mythos 5.1 attack a live build and reports only flaws that reproduce. It arrived with Workspaces and Checks for coding agents and an expansion of Libraries to Go and .NET.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 32%
Operator
Operator 44%
Investor
Investor 24%

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption12
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence70
securityOne report1 publisher

Chainguard's Mythos harness finds a vLLM flaw that lets one client dictate another's output

Chainguard says its Mythos harness found a vLLM flaw, left in the public tracker for four months, that lets one client force another client's output. Versions before v0.31.0 are affected, and nothing is logged when the forced answer returns.

Publishers:chainguard.dev

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−5
Incentives65
Confidence60
productOne report1 publisher

GitHub limits private vulnerability reports per day to spare maintainers' review time

GitHub now caps the private vulnerability reports one account can file each day, at thresholds it has not published. Admins can set their own limit and exempt trusted researchers.

Publishers:devops.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives30
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Chainguard's CVE authority will give scanners version ranges for flaws fixed years ago

Chainguard says its Athena coalition will start releasing about 50 findings on September 28, with affected version ranges attached. A scanner needs those ranges before it can flag a pinned old release.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+10
Incentives75
Confidence52
scienceOne report1 publisher

LiteLLM 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 shipped an infostealer: rotate everything those machines touched

GitGuardian says the TeamPCP campaign poisoned two LiteLLM releases on PyPI to harvest SSH keys, cloud credentials and API tokens. Detection is the cheap part of this job.

Publishers:blog.gitguardian.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption27
Hype gap+24
Incentives78
Confidence46