persistence
Safeguard articles tagged "persistence" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Python's .pth Files Are a Code Execution Primitive, and Attackers Noticed
The June 2026 PyPI worm wave used a *-setup.pth file to execute at interpreter startup — before your code, before your imports, on every single python invocation. It then fetched the Bun JavaScript runtime to run its payload. If your supply chain model stops at setup.py, it has a hole in it.
AI Agent Memory: Security Risks
Persistent memory makes AI agents more useful and more dangerous. A security engineer's walkthrough of how agent memory gets poisoned, exfiltrated, and weaponised, with concrete 2025 examples.
The boltdb-go Backdoor: A Three-Year Go Module Mirror Persistence
A typosquat of boltdb hid a Go module mirror cache-poisoning attack for three years before Socket researchers disclosed it on January 30, 2025.
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