Windows Server 2025
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Windows Server 2025

The 2025 edition of Microsoft's server operating system, featuring enhanced security, hybrid cloud integration, and stricter identity verification checks.

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"Microsoft published Exchange guidance in March for Windows Server 2025 systems built from non-generalized images."

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Hackerbot-Claw Grows, Xygeni Tag Poisoning, GitHub Search HA, Windows SID Failures, and AI Skills Supply Chain

Hackerbot-Claw Grows, Xygeni Tag Poisoning, GitHub Search HA, Windows SID Failures, and AI Skills Supply Chain

This episode of Ship It Weekly is about the places where convenience quietly turns into trust.

Brian revisits the Trivy story by zooming out to the bigger hackerbot-claw GitHub Actions campaign, then gets into the Xygeni tag-poisoning compromise, GitHub’s search high availability rebuild for GitHub Enterprise Server, Windows Server 2025 surfacing duplicate SID problems in cloned images, and the agent-skills ecosystem replaying package supply chain history. Plus: a quick lightning round on GitHub pausing self-hosted runner minimum-version enforcement and March secret scanning updates.

Links

OpenSSF advisory on active GitHub Actions exploitation https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q1/246

Xygeni action compromise via tag poisoning https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/xygeni-action-compromised-c2-reverse-shell-backdoor-injected-via-tag-poisoning

GitHub Enterprise Server search high availability rebuild https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/how-we-rebuilt-the-search-architecture-for-high-availability-in-github-enterprise-server/

Microsoft on duplicate SIDs and nongeneralized Windows Server 2025 images https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/exchange/administration/exchange-server-issues-on-incorrect-windows-server-image

Socket on supply chain security for skills.sh https://socket.dev/blog/socket-brings-supply-chain-security-to-skills

Snyk ToxicSkills research https://snyk.io/blog/toxicskills-malicious-ai-agent-skills-clawhub/

GitHub self-hosted runner minimum version enforcement paused https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-13-self-hosted-runner-minimum-version-enforcement-paused/

GitHub secret scanning pattern updates, March 2026 https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-10-secret-scanning-pattern-updates-march-2026/

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March 27, 2026
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