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785 matching posts

Title Author Published Words HN Pts
fsnotify Maintainer Dispute Sparks Supply Chain Concerns Sarah Gooding 2026-05-08 1,352 1
Socket Releases Free Certified Patches for Critical vm2 Sandbox Escape Wenxin Jiang and Marvin Fleischer and Jonah Ghebremichael 2026-05-08 607 --
TanStack npm Packages Compromised in Ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud Supply-Chain Attack Socket Research Team 2026-05-11 7,030 6
Socket Named to Rising in Cyber 2026 List of Top Cybersecurity Startups Sarah Gooding 2026-05-12 266 --
Packagist Urges Immediate Composer Update After GitHub Actions Token Leak Sarah Gooding 2026-05-13 603 --
GemStuffer Campaign Abuses RubyGems as Exfiltration Channel Targeting UK Local Government Joseph Edwards 2026-05-13 3,825 --
Popular node-ipc npm Package Infected with Credential Stealer Socket Research Team 2026-05-14 2,650 3
TeamPCP and BreachForums Launch $1,000 Contest for Supply Chain Attacks Sarah Gooding 2026-05-14 710 --
Popular Go Decimal Library Targeted by Long-Running Typosquat with DNS Backdoor Kush Pandya 2026-05-19 2,564 --
Active Supply Chain Attack Compromises @antv Packages on npm Socket Research Team 2026-05-19 10,666 4
Coruna Respawned: Compromised art-template npm Package Leads to iOS Browser Exploit Kit Joseph Edwards 2026-05-20 7,102 --
Socket Raises $60M Series C at a $1B Valuation to Help Enterprises Build Securely With AI Feross Aboukhadijeh 2026-05-20 551 --
Socket raises $60M Series C at $1B valuation led by Thrive Capital to secure AI-driven software development Feross Aboukhadijeh 2026-05-20 1,813 3
npm Invalidates Granular Access Tokens as Mini Shai-Hulud Sweeps the Registry Sarah Gooding 2026-05-21 1,477 --
Malicious Postinstall Hook Found Across 700+ GitHub Repositories, Including Packagist and Node.js Projects Socket Research Team 2026-05-22 1,356 18
AI Has Taken Over Open Source André Staltz 2026-05-22 1,356 3
Laravel Lang Compromised with RCE Backdoor Across 700+ Versions Socket Research Team 2026-05-23 6,365 9
TrapDoor Crypto Stealer Supply Chain Attack Hits 34 Packages and Hundreds of Versions Across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io Socket Research Team 2026-05-24 5,697 2
OSV Withdraws 157 Malware Reports After Automated False Positives Hit npm and PyPI Sarah Gooding 2026-05-27 659 --
Feross on TBPN: Socket's Series C and the State of Software Supply Chain Security Sarah Gooding 2026-05-27 1,834 --
Malicious NuGet Package Impersonates Sicoob SDK to Exfiltrate Banking Certificates and Passwords Kirill Boychenko 2026-05-28 2,654 --
Rust Moves to Restrict LLM Use in Contributions After Months of Internal Debate Sarah Gooding 2026-05-31 1,288 --
Famous Chollima Targets PHP Developers Through Compromised Packagist Package Kirill Boychenko 2026-05-31 1,667 --
Mini Shai-Hulud Campaign Hits Red Hat Cloud Services npm Packages Socket Research Team 2026-06-01 4,194 --
Federal Audit Finds NIST Wasted Funds With No Plan to Clear NVD Backlog Sarah Gooding 2026-06-03 2,143 --
pnpm 11.5 Adds Support for Recognizing npm Staged Publishes Sarah Gooding 2026-06-04 681 --
RubyGems Adds Cooldown Feature to Bundler for Newly Published Gems Sarah Gooding 2026-06-05 890 --
Shai-Hulud Descends to Hades: Miasma Worm Campaign Spreads with New PyPI Wave Socket Research Team 2026-06-07 2,293 --
Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades Worms Target Bioinformatics and MCP Developers via Malicious PyPI Wheels Kirill Boychenko 2026-06-08 2,072 2
npm Tooling Bug Incorrectly Marks One-Character Packages as Security Holders Sarah Gooding 2026-06-09 488 --
Socket Partners with Replit to Block Malicious Packages in AI-Powered Development Feross Aboukhadijeh 2026-06-10 379 --
Andrew Becherer Joins Socket as Chief Information Security Officer Sarah Gooding 2026-06-11 485 --
152 Chrome Live Wallpaper Extensions Hid Ad Tracking and Faked Google Search Traffic Kush Pandya 2026-06-12 4,624 --
US Government Forces Anthropic to Pull Claude Fable Days After Launch Sarah Gooding 2026-06-13 719 --
Socket for Linear Is Now Available Jeppe Hasseriis 2026-06-15 586 --
GlassWASM: WebAssembly Malware Found in Trojanized Open VSX Extensions Joseph Edwards 2026-06-15 3,923 --
npm Package Uses Prompt Injection and Token Flooding to Disrupt AI Malware Scanners Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand 2026-06-16 2,004 --
Introducing Manifest Alerts André Staltz 2026-06-16 602 --
Socket Firewall Now Blocks Malicious VS Code and Open VSX Extensions John Tuckner 2026-06-17 705 --
140+ Mastra npm Packages Compromised in Coordinated Supply Chain Attack Socket Research Team 2026-06-17 2,970 --
Socket MCP Adds Org Alerts, Threat Feed Review, and Package Inspection John Tuckner 2026-06-18 1,150 --
Introducing Repository Access Permissions and Custom Roles Joe Werle 2026-06-19 781 --
GitHub Actions Checkout Now Blocks Risky pull_request_target Checkouts Sarah Gooding 2026-06-20 1,196 --
The Code You Didn't Write Is Still Yours to Defend Brad Arkin 2026-06-23 863 --
Frontier AI Is Now Critical Infrastructure Sarah Gooding 2026-06-24 1,631 --
Miasma Mini Shai-Hulud Hits LeoPlatform npm Packages and GitHub Actions, Expands to the Go Ecosystem Socket Research Team 2026-06-25 2,226 --
Rolldown Pulls Rust React Compiler Integration After Binary Size Increase Sarah Gooding 2026-06-26 969 1
Miasma Mini Shai-Hulud Hits ImmobiliareLabs npm Packages Socket Research Team 2026-06-26 2,094 --
Chrome and Firefox Extensions Posing as Free VPNs Add Clipboard Stealers via Malicious Updates Kirill Boychenko 2026-06-29 3,008 --
Risky Biz Podcast: AI Agents Are Raising the Stakes for Software Supply Chain Security Sarah Gooding 2026-06-30 210 --