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Tom Cotton, R-Ark., walks towards a closed-door briefing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Nov. 5, 2025 on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Tom Brenner\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"20.903225806452\"><body readability=\"45.790188679245\"><\/p>\n<p>Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton is raising the spectre of foreign adversaries playing too heavy a role in open-source software, and asking the national cyber director to counter the risks.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma Republican wrote to National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross Thursday, saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/cairncross_letter.pdf\">he was concerned<\/a> about reports that \u201cstate-sponsored software developers and cyber espionage groups have started to exploit this communal environment, which assumes that contributors are benevolent, to insert malicious code into widely used open source codebases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton cited last year\u2019s alarms about a shadowy suspected nation-state hacker, Jia Tan, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/open-source-security-trust-xz-utils\/\">inserting a backdoor<\/a> into a beta version of the compression utility XZ Utils. He also noted a Russia-based developer being <a href=\"https:\/\/huntedlabs.com\/popping-fast-globs-hood\/\">the sole maintainer<\/a> of a piece of open-source software (OSS) that\u2019s in Defense Department software packages, and citations about Chinese tech companies Alibaba and Huawei being top OSS contributors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Office of the National Cyber Director holds responsibility for coordinating implementation of national cyber policy and government-wide cybersecurity, you are well-positioned to lead the U.S. government in addressing this cross-cutting vulnerability,\u201d Cotton wrote. \u201cI respectfully request that you take steps to build up the federal government\u2019s capability to maintain awareness of provenance and foreign influence on OSS and track contributions from developers in adversary nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cotton\u2019s letter adds to warnings from the Hill this year about the risks that Chinese involvement in open-source tech poses, following <a href=\"https:\/\/chinaselectcommittee.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/gallagher-rubio-select-committee-members-urge-sec-raimondo-safeguard-american\">a letter<\/a> from the House select committee on China on the subject to Biden-era Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Legislation designed to improve open-source cybersecurity didn\u2019t advance in the Senate after leading lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/22\/senators-introduce-bill-protect-open-source-software\/\">introduced it<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The senator noted that open-source software is part of critical government and defense systems. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in July ordered the Pentagon\u2019s chief information officer to take steps to <a href=\"https:\/\/defensescoop.com\/2025\/07\/23\/hegseth-dod-cio-cloud-tech-supply-chain-order-microsoft-china\/\">guard against foreign influence<\/a> in department technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DoD will not procure any hardware or software susceptible to adversarial foreign influence that presents risk to mission accomplishment and must prevent such adversaries from introducing malicious capabilities into the products and services that are utilized by the Department,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a Trump administration executive order this year <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/trump-administration-cybersecurity-executive-orders-policy-changes-2025\/\">puzzled experts<\/a> by deleting language from a previous Biden administration executive order emphasizing the importance of open-source software.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"7.7216117216117\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/senate-intel-chair-urges-national-cyber-director-to-safeguard-against-open-source-software-threats-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Tim Starks\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-card__details\" readability=\"10.901098901099\">\n<h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Tim Starks<\/h4>\n<p> Tim Starks is senior reporter at CyberScoop. 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