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.
Socket disclosed TrapDoor on May 24, 2026: 34+ malicious packages and 384+ versions across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io built to steal crypto wallets, SSH keys, and cloud credentials from crypto, DeFi, Solana, and AI developers.
In a six-hour window on May 18, 2026, an automated campaign pushed malicious GitHub Actions workflows into 5,561 repositories using credentials harvested by infostealers. We break down the attack chain, the workflow_dispatch dormancy trick, and CI detection.
On 19 May 2026, three malicious versions of Microsoft's durabletask PyPI package were uploaded in a 35-minute window. The payload steals AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes credentials in under four seconds and ships a locale-gated rm -rf wiper.
On 14 May 2026, three malicious node-ipc versions (9.1.6, 9.2.3, 12.0.1) shipped an 80 KB credential-stealing IIFE appended after module.exports in the CJS bundle — no install scripts, harvesting 90+ secret categories from a library with 10M+ weekly downloads.
On 12-13 May 2026, RubyGems was hit by a coordinated spam-publishing flood that pushed 500+ malicious packages from newly-registered bot accounts. The registry paused new signups and re-enabled them on 16 May after tightening rate limiting with Fastly.
Authentication and plugin-loading risks in RabbitMQ's management plugin show why message brokers, which hold credentials and pass payloads, should be inventoried with the same rigor as databases.
The @netlify/plugin-* ecosystem runs in your build with full filesystem and network access. Here is how to evaluate, allowlist, and gate it in 2026.
Squid's recurring memory-corruption CVEs in 2024 and 2025 are a reminder that transparent egress proxies sit on a critical path and rarely get the SBOM scrutiny their position deserves.
On 11-12 May 2026, the TeamPCP-linked Mini Shai-Hulud worm published 84 malicious artifacts across 42 TanStack npm packages in six minutes, then spread to 160+ packages by abusing GitHub Actions OIDC tokens and CI cache poisoning.
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