diff --git a/hardening_manifest.yaml b/hardening_manifest.yaml
index 402ce2116d4b27c1a7489103ad107f648f6ddedf..2c06d02869924559921af7ea4e61016ae53d5610 100644
--- a/hardening_manifest.yaml
+++ b/hardening_manifest.yaml
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@ labels:
 # List of resources to make available to the offline build context
 resources:
 - filename: ant-bin.tar.gz
-  url: https://downloads.apache.org/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.15-bin.tar.gz
+  url: https://downloads.apache.org/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.16-bin.tar.gz
   validation:
     type: sha512
-    value: 34de1a56f7642c87b01bdf35ca105c19fedbddcb451496e5baa9df292689a3ab01af4a90c6f3fde78db8e86edc57f360ef5ccc51b969f733dd7fbc7a4e5bd4c6
+    value: 8d542a7a636a491e76170148881b6f413f4564aad1ab034f426bd946be93382001862bd6c60865aa2b57b39b9633e0181fe8997dd6323123aaf76b410ec4a366
 
 # List of project maintainers
 # FIXME: Fill in the following details for the current container owner in the whitelist