VS Code Marketplace Malware Campaigns in 2025
A senior engineer's review of the 2025 VS Code Marketplace malware wave, including typosquats, trojanized themes, and extensions that stole npm tokens at scale.
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A senior engineer's review of the 2025 VS Code Marketplace malware wave, including typosquats, trojanized themes, and extensions that stole npm tokens at scale.
Researchers tracked a PyPI campaign publishing malicious packages under the mexalz and related account names, targeting Python developers with infostealers.
Eagle 3.0 is the classification model behind Safeguard's package, image, and secret detection. Here is what changed, what moved, and what it means for alerts.
The Safeguard Research team analyzed first-quarter 2026 malicious package telemetry across npm, PyPI, RubyGems, and crates.io. Here is what the data shows.
Q1 2024 brought typosquats, stealer campaigns, and a week-long new-user freeze on PyPI. Here is what the attacks looked like and how to defend.
A sustained campaign flooded PyPI with hundreds of malicious packages using typosquatting and dependency confusion to steal credentials and cryptocurrency from developers.
A WinRAR vulnerability exploited since April 2023 allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code when users opened seemingly harmless files inside ZIP archives.
PyPI paused new user registration for most of May 20-23 after a March wave of typosquats and info-stealers flooded the index. Here is what happened and why.
Python's package registry saw an explosion of malicious packages in late 2022, from credential stealers to reverse shells. Here's what we found.
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