Risky Business Features

Solo podcast: A deep dive on TeamPCP

Risky Business Features

Show Notes

In this solo episode, James Wilson takes a detailed look at TeamPCP.

It started off by launching clumsy attacks against misconfigured Kubernetes clusters in September 2025. But by February this year, TeamPCP had skilled up and was smashing global software supply chains in the highest profile attacks of 2026.

TeamPCP upskilled and turned the software development ecosystem into its personal credential harvesting machine.

Here’s how TeamPCP did it, and what we can learn from it.

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