Your Dependency Incident Runbook Assumes a Fixed List of Bad Packages
Most supply chain runbooks say: get the affected package list, search lockfiles, remediate. Against a worm that adds packages while you work, every one of those steps is wrong.
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.
Most supply chain runbooks say: get the affected package list, search lockfiles, remediate. Against a worm that adds packages while you work, every one of those steps is wrong.
The ctx and colourama PyPI typosquatting malware incident shows how account takeover and name-squatting delivered credential-stealing code to devs.
A two-year maintainer-trust takeover placed a pre-auth SSH backdoor inside xz-utils. Heres how CVE-2024-3094 was built, hidden, and caught in time.
A look back at the 2021 Codecov Bash Uploader breach: how a tampered CI script exfiltrated secrets for two months, and what it teaches about supply chain risk.
A deep dive into the 2021 ua-parser-js npm compromise: how a hijacked maintainer account delivered cryptominers and credential stealers to millions.
How a domain sale turned a trusted CDN into a malware vector for 100,000+ sites — and what the polyfill.io incident teaches defenders about third-party script risk.
A breakdown of the 3CX supply chain compromise: how Lazarus-linked attackers poisoned a signed desktop build via a nested vendor attack chain.
In 2021, attackers pushed a hidden RCE backdoor into PHP's own source repo under forged maintainer names — a supply chain near-miss worth revisiting.
In January 2022, colors.js and faker.js maintainer Marak Squires sabotaged his own packages, breaking thousands of builds—no compromise required.
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