incident-analysis
Safeguard articles tagged "incident-analysis" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
62 articles
The XZ Utils backdoor: anatomy of a supply chain attack
A two-year maintainer-trust takeover placed a pre-auth SSH backdoor inside xz-utils. Heres how CVE-2024-3094 was built, hidden, and caught in time.
Codecov Bash Uploader supply chain breach
A look back at the 2021 Codecov Bash Uploader breach: how a tampered CI script exfiltrated secrets for two months, and what it teaches about supply chain risk.
UAParser.js npm package compromise
A deep dive into the 2021 ua-parser-js npm compromise: how a hijacked maintainer account delivered cryptominers and credential stealers to millions.
Polyfill.io supply chain attack
How a domain sale turned a trusted CDN into a malware vector for 100,000+ sites — and what the polyfill.io incident teaches defenders about third-party script risk.
3CX desktop app supply chain compromise
A breakdown of the 3CX supply chain compromise: how Lazarus-linked attackers poisoned a signed desktop build via a nested vendor attack chain.
PHP Git server compromise incident (2021)
In 2021, attackers pushed a hidden RCE backdoor into PHP's own source repo under forged maintainer names — a supply chain near-miss worth revisiting.
Colors.js and Faker.js maintainer sabotage incident
In January 2022, colors.js and faker.js maintainer Marak Squires sabotaged his own packages, breaking thousands of builds—no compromise required.
node-ipc protestware incident
How a trusted maintainer turned node-ipc into "protestware," why transitive dependencies hid the blast radius, and what SBOM visibility could have prevented.
Shai-Hulud self-propagating npm worm campaign
Inside Shai-Hulud, the self-propagating npm worm that hijacked publish tokens to auto-infect hundreds of packages across the JavaScript ecosystem.
lottie-player npm supply chain compromise
A phishing-driven npm token takeover pushed a crypto wallet drainer into lottie-player, hitting 94K weekly downloads before LottieFiles shipped a fix.
jQuery CDN supply chain risk analysis
jQuery loads on ~75% of websites, often via CDNs with no SRI or version pinning. The cdnjs RCE and Polyfill.io hijack show why that trust model keeps failing.
XcodeGhost iOS supply chain malware campaign
XcodeGhost hid inside Xcode itself, silently infecting 4,000+ App Store apps like WeChat. Here is how the iOS supply chain malware campaign worked.
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