Developers find themselves in hackers’ crosshairs

Attackers have long targeted application vulnerabilities in order to breach systems and steal data, but recently they’ve been skipping a step and going directly after the tools developers use to actually build those applications.
Consider the news that broke earlier this year that entailed how the CIA allegedly attempted to compromise Apple’s development software Xcode. Such a breach could mean that every app developed with the development environment would, in turn, contain malware