An Empirical Study of Observability Limits in Advanced Software Supply Chain Attacks

arXiv:2603.16694 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-03-17 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-03-17

Updated: 2026-08-26

Code: https://github.com/MythicAgents/Apollo

Terminology

• Alignment — 31× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 27× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 21× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Taxonomy — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Advanced Persistent Threat — 3× in this paper
• Security and Privacy — 3× in this paper
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Azure Monitor Agent — 1× in this paper
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Digital Twin — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems — 1× in this paper
• In Network and Distributed System Security — 1× in this paper
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Least Significant Bit — 1× in this paper
• Synthetic Data Generation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Maintainable Log Datasets for Evaluation of Intrusion Detection Systems
• On the critical path to implant backdoors and the effectiveness of potential mitigation techniques: Early learnings from XZ
• APT-MCL: An Adaptive APT Detection System Based on Multi-View Collaborative Provenance Graph Learning
• Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks

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