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Supply Chain Attacks

A Year Inside the Installer: QuickFox, FDMTP, and Targeted Supply Chain Patience

The trojanized QuickFox installer ran for roughly a year, fingerprinting each victim before deploying a backdoor. Selective targeting bought the dwell time and broke conventional detection.

Aug 8, 20266 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

Protestware: what colors.js and faker.js taught the industry about maintainer risk

One unpaid maintainer sabotaged two packages with 20M+ weekly downloads in a single week. Here's what colors.js and faker.js reveal about single-maintainer risk.

Jul 16, 20265 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

npm package aliasing: the dependency confusion attack surface most teams never scan

npm's alias@npm:target syntax lets an attacker capture a name that doesn't even exist yet on the registry — widening dependency confusion past simple squatting.

Jul 16, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

The eslint-config-prettier npm compromise: when phishing beats your SCA scanner

A phishing email spoofing npm support hijacked a maintainer's account and poisoned eslint-config-prettier, a package with roughly 30 million weekly downloads.

Jul 16, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

The elementary-data hijack: when a dbt observability tool became a credential harvester

A hijacked GitHub Actions token let attackers publish a backdoored elementary-data release that stole cloud, warehouse, and SSH credentials.

Jul 16, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks

Anatomy of the Codecov Bash Uploader compromise

A single altered line in Codecov's Bash Uploader ran undetected for 65 days, siphoning CI secrets from thousands of pipelines before anyone noticed.

Jul 16, 20266 min read

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