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Safeguard articles tagged "supply-chain-attacks" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.

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AI Security

Overview of AI model supply chain security risks end to end

A concrete, incident-driven walkthrough of AI supply chain security — from poisoned datasets and backdoored Hugging Face models to CI pipeline hijacks — and how to reduce the risk end to end.

Aug 5, 20268 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

CI/CD pipeline supply chain attacks explained

A breakdown of how CI/CD supply chain attacks work, from SolarWinds to the 2025 tj-actions/changed-files breach, and how to detect and stop them.

Jul 31, 20266 min read
Open Source Security

State of npm supply chain attacks

Maintainer phishing, self-propagating worms, and mass-download packages compromised: a look at the npm supply chain attack trends reshaping open source risk.

Jul 27, 20267 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

The PHP Source Code Git Server Backdoor Compromise of 2021

In 2021, attackers breached PHP's git server and pushed a backdoor under forged commits from top maintainers. Here's how the PHP git server compromise unfolded.

Jul 23, 20267 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

The Six-Month PEAR go-pear.phar Installer Compromise

How a single tampered PEAR go-pear.phar installer sat undetected on pear.php.net for months, what it could do, and what the PHP ecosystem learned about supply chain trust.

Jul 22, 20267 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

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.

Jul 16, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

Anatomy of an npm maintainer account takeover

A single phishing email hit eslint-config-prettier's ~30M weekly downloads in July 2025 — no code compromise needed, just a stolen npm login.

Jul 9, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

Inside the npm Reward-Farming Worm That Published 89,000+ Packages

One npm publishing bot exploited a crypto reward protocol to spam 89,000+ packages, some appearing every 7-10 seconds. Here's how it worked and how to spot it.

Jul 9, 20267 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

Anatomy of an npm Build-Pipeline Hijack That Shipped a Cross-Platform RAT

One stolen npm token, three malicious releases, four hours online — and 8 million weekly downloads exposed to a cross-platform credential stealer.

Jul 8, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

Anatomy of a self-propagating npm worm

In September 2025, one phished maintainer account led to malicious chalk and debug releases hitting over 2B weekly downloads within two hours.

Jul 8, 20267 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

A dormant contributor account just took down the entire Mastra npm scope

One forgotten npm maintainer account let an attacker republish all 142 packages in the @mastra scope in 90 minutes, hitting a package with 4 million monthly downloads.

Jul 7, 20266 min read
Software Supply Chain Security

npm typosquatting attacks

npm typosquatting turns a single mistyped `npm install` into a live compromise. Real incidents, attack patterns, and defenses that actually catch it.

Jul 6, 20267 min read

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