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Supply Chain Attacks

Ledger Connect Kit December 2023: A CDN Attack Retrospective

The Ledger Connect Kit compromise was a five-hour CDN attack that drained roughly $600k from connected wallets. A look at how it happened and what defenders learned.

Mar 12, 20265 min read
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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.

Mar 11, 20267 min read
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OSS Maintainer Account Takeover Trends 2025

A senior engineer's breakdown of how maintainer account takeovers evolved in 2025, from phishing kits targeting PyPI to session token theft on GitHub and npm.

Mar 7, 20267 min read
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npm Protestware Patterns From 2020 to 2026

A senior engineer's view of six years of npm protestware, from colors.js to peacenotwar, and the supply chain lessons that still apply to modern JavaScript shops.

Mar 3, 20267 min read
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npm Slopsquat: The Hallucinated Package Risk in 2026

Slopsquatting is the practice of registering package names that LLMs hallucinate, turning AI coding assistants into an accidental distribution channel.

Feb 18, 20267 min read
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Maven Central Malicious Publishing Trends 2025

Maven Central has historically been the quietest major registry for malware, but 2025 saw a measurable uptick in malicious artifacts and namespace abuse.

Feb 10, 20266 min read
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Cargo supply chain attacks: typosquatting and malicious c...

Crates.io typosquatting tricks Rust developers into pulling malicious crates instead of trusted ones. Here's how these attacks work — and how to spot them before you build.

Feb 5, 20267 min read
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PyPI mexalz Malware Campaign Deep Dive

Researchers tracked a PyPI campaign publishing malicious packages under the mexalz and related account names, targeting Python developers with infostealers.

Feb 2, 20266 min read
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Gradle build script injection and plugin supply chain att...

How attackers hijack Gradle plugins, typosquat the Plugin Portal, and inject code into build.gradle files to run with full CI trust — and how to stop it.

Jan 29, 20268 min read
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