supply-chain-security
Safeguard articles tagged "supply-chain-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Detecting malicious postinstall scripts in npm packages
A 2025 phishing attack compromised 18 npm packages with 2.6 billion weekly downloads. Here's how postinstall scripts became npm's top attack vector.
A risk framework for enterprise AI coding and agent tool rollouts
Samsung banned ChatGPT company-wide after three leaks in 20 days. A working framework for data exposure, model supply chain, and access control risk.
Concrete guardrails for AI coding assistants
40% of Copilot-generated code contained CWE Top 25 flaws in a 2022 study. Here are the prompt, scanning, and review gates that actually stop AI-written risk.
Hardening CI/CD Against a Compromised Upstream Registry
The Sept 2025 npm attack hit packages with 2B weekly downloads in 2 hours. Pinning, lockfile checks, and mirrors would have stopped it cold.
The Cursor IDE extension that stole $500K: a supply chain post-mortem
A fake 'Solidity Language' extension hit 50,000+ downloads on Open VSX before stealing $500K in crypto. Here's how IDE marketplaces became a trust gap.
MCP server security for AI coding agents
A critical RCE in Anthropic's own MCP Inspector (CVSS 9.4) and two Cursor CVEs show that giving AI agents tool access creates a new, largely unvetted attack surface.
The npm worm incident response playbook
Shai-Hulud compromised 500+ npm packages by auto-publishing itself with stolen tokens. Here's a concrete detection, rotation, and pinning playbook.
The 4 dimensions of open-source dependency risk
Open-source risk isn't one problem — CVEs, malware, license exposure, and abandonment each fail differently, and Sonatype logged 454,600+ malicious packages in 2025 alone.
SBOM-based blast radius analysis for vulnerable dependencies
An SBOM tells you what's inside one artifact. It takes a dependency graph across every service to know what breaks first when a library gets a CVE.
Auditing AI agent skill registries for hardcoded keys
29M new hardcoded secrets hit public GitHub in 2025, up 34% YoY — and 3% of MCP servers in production carry hardcoded credentials as theft traps.
Signing and provenance standards for AI agent skill registries
Shai-Hulud infected 500+ npm packages via stolen tokens in 2025. Agent skill registries are repeating the same unsigned-artifact mistake — here's the fix.
Reconstructing the tj-actions/changed-files compromise
CVE-2025-30066 hit CISA's KEV list within 3 days: 23,000+ repos ran a poisoned GitHub Action that dumped CI secrets straight into public build logs.
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