Posts Tagged ‘npm’
Top 5 Cybersecurity News
This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News for October 16, 2026 has one thing in common: each story turns on a check that looked like proof of safety. A VPN appliance was fully patched and the vendor’s integrity tool found nothing, yet an attacker held root. French supermarkets ran refrigeration controllers that sit outside most IT…
Read MoreKeyv npm Supply Chain Attack Hits 2 Billion Installs
The Keyv npm supply chain attack compromised a single GitHub maintainer account and used it to push a credential-stealing worm into hundreds of widely used caching packages. By August 5, trackers put the count at 868 packages and 1,381 versions, spanning a combined 2 billion-plus monthly installs — the largest software supply-chain incident DIESEC has…
Read MoreAsyncAPI npm Supply Chain Attack: No Token Stolen
The AsyncAPI npm supply chain attack shows that neither of the two controls teams were told to trust — cryptographic provenance and blocking install scripts — actually stopped it: an attacker published four trojanized packages with valid SLSA/OIDC provenance attestations, without ever stealing an npm token, and the payload runs regardless of –ignore-scripts. What Happened…
Read MorePolinRider Supply Chain Attack Hits 108 Packages
The PolinRider supply chain attack has been confirmed by Socket.dev, SecurityWeek and SC Media: a North Korea-linked actor has flooded four separate open-source ecosystems — npm, Packagist, Go modules and the Chrome Web Store — with 108 malicious packages designed to steal developer and cloud credentials. What Happened Researchers attribute the PolinRider supply chain attack…
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