AI Security
The Nx Attack Turned AI Coding Agents Into the Malware
In August 2025, attackers hijacked Nx's npm publish token and used Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Amazon Q as the exfiltration engine — leaking 2,349 secrets.
Jul 16, 20266 min read
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The postmark-mcp Backdoor: What MCP Server Vetting Should Look Like
A trojanized MCP server BCC'd every email it sent to an attacker for weeks, downloaded 1,643 times, before anyone noticed. Here's the pattern and the fix.
Jul 16, 20267 min read
Supply Chain Attacks
Protestware: what colors.js and faker.js taught the industry about maintainer risk
One unpaid maintainer sabotaged two packages with 20M+ weekly downloads in a single week. Here's what colors.js and faker.js reveal about single-maintainer risk.
Jul 16, 20265 min read
Application Security
Inside the Qinglong Scheduler RCE: How Two Auth Bugs Became a Cryptomining Campaign
Two chainable auth-bypass bugs in the Qinglong task scheduler let attackers skip login entirely and mine crypto on victim CPUs — in the wild before a patch existed.
Jul 16, 20265 min read
Supply Chain Attacks
Postmortem: The Bun-Based Stealer Inside SAP's @cap-js and mbt Packages
Four SAP npm packages shipped a Bun-executed credential stealer on April 29, 2026 — a look at how it evaded Node-centric detection and what actually stops it.
Jul 16, 20266 min read
Best Practices
Secure code review: the checklist reviewers actually need
Broken access control affects nearly every tested app and XSS remains the #1 CWE overall — both catchable in review. Here is a language-agnostic PR checklist.
Jul 16, 20267 min read
DevSecOps
Secure SDLC: A Practical Guide to Embedding Security Gates in Every Phase
NIST finalized the Secure Software Development Framework in February 2022, yet most teams still bolt security on at release. Here's where the gates actually belong.
Jul 16, 20267 min read
Cloud Security
Catching Terraform Misconfigurations Before They Ever Reach Apply
Trivy replaced tfsec in 2023 and Checkov ships thousands of policies — here's how to wire open-source Terraform scanners into CI/CD before terraform apply runs.
Jul 16, 20266 min read
Application Security
Trojan Source: how Unicode bidi control characters hide malicious code in plain sight
CVE-2021-42574 scored 8.3 CVSS for a bug that isn't a parser flaw at all — it's Unicode's bidirectional text algorithm, weaponized against code review.
Jul 16, 20266 min read
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