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JavaScript package registry cited as carrying more than 300 booby-trapped packages from the fake-recruiter campaign.
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Attackers moved upstream into the project's own repositories and release workflows, so the attestations checked out. Publisher reputation no longer tells you a build is clean.
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The cheapest way to run code on a developer's machine now needs approval. Checkmarx expects attackers to move to runtime, and developers to start rubber-stamping the prompt.
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The poisoned keyv releases were signed by GitHub Actions and the attestation was accurate. It certified a build whose source had already been taken over.
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Four subsystems are all Cordis plugins at the pinned commit, which turns extension into an architecture decision. The same guide records GitHub at rc.8 and npm at rc.7.
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Blocking newly published packages from being indexed treats ingestion speed as the attack surface. The cooldown window is a policy call platform teams have to own, not a switch they flip.
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A dev.to post scanned the domains behind the top 5,000 npm packages and found 18 with registration or email-security anomalies. The aggregate numbers matter more than the 18, and the headline overstates both.
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A dev.to post argues most "read-only" Kubernetes MCP servers filter the tools/list response while the write path stays callable. One such filter is now a CVE at CVSS 8.8.
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A dev.to walkthrough puts metadata and tarball inspection first, on the grounds that most npm malware fires during install and not at import. It needs nothing you have to buy.
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Two palette functions in a fifteen-year-old npm dependency exhaust the heap on a negative or fractional count. A differential fuzzer with 31 million comparisons could not see it.
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A harness scored 3 of 24 until its operator stopped trusting shutil.which. The variable under test turned out to be the plumbing, not the model.
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A dev.to teardown argues the 11-minute CI build that runs in 20 seconds locally is a cache-miss problem, and that one run with --progress=plain will prove it before you pay for bigger runners.
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Anthropic's own study found users approved 97% of prompts and caught 13.6% of harmful actions. From August 14 the click stops being the safeguard, and deny rules become the job.
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Every failure was documented somewhere. The order was not, and that is what ends the install for anyone who does not write code.
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ViteDash 2.2 declared a dependency npm's flat node_modules had been hiding, then found its own manual chunk config had made first paint worse than shipping one big file.
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Its read-only guarantee is a check that the query text starts with SELECT. Data-modifying CTEs, leading comments and stacked statements all walk straight through it.
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Allure-Katalon Bridge fills a gap Katalon never shipped, installing by copying eight files into a project. The interesting part is stable history IDs, not the installer.
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A vendor essay on AI package hallucination makes a defensible case: a package name that does not exist yet cannot be scanned, so the control has to sit at selection.
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A joint police and cyber agency advisory puts fake-job crypto losses at S$15.1m. The more consequential detail is three exchange operations in four months, all running off the same tooling.
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