The Economics of Publishing Fake Packages at Scale
Publishing a malicious package costs an attacker almost nothing while payouts run into the millions. Here's the cost-benefit math behind fake packages — and how to break it.
Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
Publishing a malicious package costs an attacker almost nothing while payouts run into the millions. Here's the cost-benefit math behind fake packages — and how to break it.
Attackers don't hack npm's servers — they phish or socially engineer maintainers. Here's how account takeover turns trusted packages into malware.
npm quietly rebuilt its trust model in 2025 after the chalk/debug hijack and the Shai-Hulud worm. Here's what changed, why JFrog's curation model isn't enough, and how Safeguard closes the gap.
How the Shai-Hulud npm worm self-propagated across 500+ packages in 48 hours by stealing tokens and republishing itself — and how to stop the next one.
A step-by-step reconstruction of a real dependency confusion attack, from malicious package upload to remediation, and how to defend your pipeline.
Analysis of CVE data across Rust crates and std releases, measuring how memory safety affects vulnerability shape, density, and unsafe-block concentration.
Real npm supply-chain incidents from event-stream to the 2025 chalk/debug hack, and 10 concrete practices to stop install-time attacks, typosquatting, and token theft.
AI coding assistants hallucinate package names at rates as high as 19.7% — and attackers are registering those exact names. Here's how slopsquatting works and how to stop it.
We compare Safeguard and Mend.io on verifiable SCA dimensions — company history, Renovate, SBOM depth, and build provenance — for buyers evaluating tools in 2026.
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