Rust supply chain security landscape
Rust's crates.io has topped 170,000 packages and real attacks are following. Here's what's changed and how security teams should respond.
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Rust's crates.io has topped 170,000 packages and real attacks are following. Here's what's changed and how security teams should respond.
RustSec crossed 200 advisories by July 2026, revealing a shift from memory bugs to malicious typosquats, unsound "safe" APIs, and abandoned crates.
Safeguard's research team scanned all of crates.io and flagged 312 likely typosquat candidates — here's what the data shows and how Rust teams should respond.
Three CocoaPods trunk server flaws sat unpatched for a decade, exposing 1,866 orphaned pods to takeover. Here's what happened and how to defend your dependencies.
Typosquats, thin CVE coverage, and an executable manifest format: inside the Swift Package Manager vulnerability trends security teams can't ignore.
CocoaPods trunk server CVEs and the SourMint SDK scandal reveal how malicious iOS SDKs and pods slip past App Review for years.
Mobile apps now ship more third-party code than first-party. Safeguard's analysis breaks down where dependency vulnerabilities cluster and why.
From xz-utils to polyfill.io, attackers increasingly compromise packages developers already trust rather than planting fakes. Here's how these attacks work and how Safeguard catches them.
Unmaintained open source components quietly power critical software until a bug hits and no one is left to patch it. Here's the risk, and how to manage it.
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