Chainguard Adds New Members to Athena Coalition as Coordinated Open Source Defense Scales

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    "excerpt": "Chainguard's industry coalition reports 40,000 findings processed KIRKLAND, Wash. , July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Chainguard today announced the expansion of Athena , the industry coalition for the orchestrated defense of open source software, adding new members, including Akamai, Black Duck, Cycode, JFrog, Morgan Stanley, Qualys, Upwind, and Zafran. The company also shared updated figures on the volume and severity of vulnerabilities the coalition has processed since launching three weeks ago. To date, Athena has processed more than 40,000 vulnerabilities, doubling its intake since launching three weeks ago. Of vulnerabilities submitted so far, 42% are critical- or high-severity. While significant, the number understates the real exposure, as frontier AI models can chain low- and medium-severity bugs into more serious attacks that no single CVSS score captures. Additionally, 86% are network reachable, meaning they can be accessed and triggered by attackers at the network level. About 7% sit in packages more than five years old. These are latent flaws in mature, widely trusted dependencies that survived extensive expert review without detection. \"Frontier models are finding zero-days in open source faster than anyone can respond with discovery to exploitation is now measured in hours, and no one company is going to get ahead of that alone. Athena proves that orchestrated...",
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