Supply Chain Attacks
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.
Jul 9, 20265 min read
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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
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.
Jul 9, 20265 min read
Supply Chain Attacks
Anatomy of a Software Supply-Chain Worm: A Post-Mortem Framework
500+ npm packages backdoored in days, then 796 more two months later. A repeatable post-mortem framework for self-propagating open-source worms.
Jul 9, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks
Anatomy of the XZ Utils backdoor: how CVE-2024-3094 nearly compromised SSH on every major Linux distro
A CVSS 10.0 backdoor sat in xz 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 for weeks, hidden in a test file, until 0.5 seconds of extra SSH login latency gave it away.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks
Software supply chain attack trends: what the public incident data shows
Sonatype tracked 454,648 new malicious packages in 2025 alone — over 1.2 million total since it started counting. Here's what three years of incident data reveal.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
Supply Chain Attacks
Anatomy of a PyPI Compromise: How durabletask Got Hijacked in 35 Minutes
Three malicious durabletask releases hit PyPI in a 35-minute window in May 2026 — a maintainer-token theft, not a code review failure.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks
How malicious PyPI packages steal cloud credentials at install time
A typosquat of a 200M-download SSH library stole AWS keys from 37,000 installs — before anyone imported it. Here's the install-time attack pattern.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
Supply Chain Attacks
Anatomy of the polyfill.io CDN Compromise
In June 2024, a single acquired domain turned a free CDN trusted by over 100,000 sites into a live malware injection point — with no dependency update required.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
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