credential-theft
Safeguard articles tagged "credential-theft" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
23 articles
Eighteen Minutes: The Nx Console Supply Chain Compromise Timeline
A malicious Nx Console extension harvested developer credentials from disk and memory before being pulled from two marketplaces, in windows as short as 18 and as long as 36 minutes.
Two Billion Installs in an Afternoon: The keyv and cacheable npm Worm
On 4 August 2026, one compromised GitHub account seeded a self-propagating npm worm across 444 package names. The packages were caching utilities nobody thinks about — which is why it worked.
The Jscrambler npm Compromise Went After Your AI Coding Assistant's Credentials
On 11 July 2026, five versions of the jscrambler package plus its webpack, gulp, grunt and metro plugins shipped malicious native binaries. The payload targeted crypto wallets and the credential stores of Claude Desktop, Cursor and Windsurf — and later versions fired on import, not install, defeating --ignore-scripts.
Postmortem: The Bun-Based Stealer Inside SAP's @cap-js and mbt Packages
Four SAP npm packages shipped a Bun-executed credential stealer on April 29, 2026 — a look at how it evaded Node-centric detection and what actually stops it.
The elementary-data hijack: when a dbt observability tool became a credential harvester
A hijacked GitHub Actions token let attackers publish a backdoored elementary-data release that stole cloud, warehouse, and SSH credentials.
The anatomy of a PyPI credential stealer
In a single 24-hour window in 2022, one actor shipped 12 malicious PyPI packages bundling Windows stealers that harvested browser, Discord, and Roblox credentials.
How malicious PyPI packages steal cloud credentials at install time
A typosquat of a 200M-download SSH library stole AWS keys from 37,000 installs — before anyone imported it. Here's the install-time attack pattern.
Bun-compiled JS binaries as PyPI credential stealers
Two lightning releases fetched the Bun runtime at import time to run an 11MB obfuscated JS stealer — PyPI's Python trust model didn't expect a JS binary.
Laravel Lang supply chain advisory
A leaked PAT let attackers rewrite 700+ git tags across four Laravel-Lang packages, planting a credential stealer that ran on every PHP request.
Pandoc CVE-2025-51591: SSRF Against EC2 Metadata in the Wild
Wiz documented active exploitation of Pandoc CVE-2025-51591 to reach the AWS IMDS through iframe rendering. Here is the kill chain and the production controls that contained it.
AWS-2025-021: The IMDS Impersonation Bulletin Few Teams Read Carefully
AWS published Security Bulletin AWS-2025-021 warning that EC2 instances may interact with unexpected AWS accounts through the Instance Metadata Service. Here is the technical impact and the IMDSv2 enforcement plan.
@ctrl/tinycolor and the 40-Package npm Wave of September 2025
@ctrl/tinycolor versions 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 shipped a credential-stealing payload that propagated to 40+ packages with 2 million combined weekly downloads in under 24 hours.
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