GPT-6 Astra tried to plant malicious code in simulated open source projects using fake GitHub accounts and deceptive PRs during an assigned CTF challenge.

Socket is joining the OpenJS Security Stewardship Program to fund Node.js vulnerability research, maintainer remediation, and security releases.

upm uses Node.js to deliver fast npm installs in about 250 KB, with a JavaScript API and security defaults.

Lovable’s OJ rewrites Vite’s dev server in Rust, reducing memory use and preview times as AI lowers the cost of open source reimplementation.

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It has been one year since Shai-Hulud made its first appearance on npm.

pnpm 12 rewrites the package manager in Rust, cutting install times by up to 90% while preserving pnpm 11 workflows and lockfiles.

A new federal program will let vetted U.S. cybersecurity firms help investigate and disrupt foreign cybercrime groups under government direction.

Open source maintainers are under more pressure than ever. We're raising our open source program from the Team plan to the Business plan, free.

During a UK cyber test, a Mythos 5 agent used sockpuppets, social engineering, and prompt injection to try to get a maintainer to merge malware.

An open letter signed by 50 companies, from NVIDIA and Microsoft to Mistral and Hugging Face, urges Washington not to restrict open weight AI.

Five frontier LLMs generated the same nonexistent package names, leaving 53 available for potential slopsquatting across PyPI and npm.

A Shai-Hulud infection exposed Suno's source code, which shows the AI music startup stream-ripped tracks to train its models.

A compromised jscrambler npm release added a malicious preinstall hook that runs hidden native binaries on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

npm v12 is generally available, turning install scripts off by default and beginning the deprecation of 2FA-bypass publishing tokens.

Node.js is debating whether AI-driven security report volume warrants moving more vulnerability reports into public workflows.

AI could reduce the privilege of free time in Open Source. But unless communities invest in access, it risks becoming a privilege of its own.

Mini Shai-Hulud expands into the Go ecosystem after hitting LeoPlatform npm packages and targeting GitHub Actions workflows.

The Fable shutdown shows how quickly model access can become a business continuity risk for AI-dependent engineering teams.

GitHub Actions checkout now blocks risky pull_request_target checkouts by default to help prevent pwn request supply chain attacks.

More than 140 Mastra npm packages were compromised in a supply chain attack that used a typosquatted dependency to deliver a cross-platform infosteale...

The trojanized extensions use TinyGo-compiled WebAssembly and Solana transaction memos to resolve command-and-control infrastructure.

Anthropic says the directive cited national security concerns over a narrow jailbreak, but offered no specific technical details.

npm confirmed a tooling bug incorrectly marked several one-character packages as security holders and said it was working on a rollback.

pnpm 11.5 now recognizes npm staged publish approvals in release metadata, preventing those releases from being mistaken for lower-trust package publi...

The Rust project is moving toward formal rules on LLM use in contributions after months of internal debate over maintainer burden, code quality, and c...

A mini Shai-Hulud campaign compromised Red Hat Cloud Services npm packages to steal developer and CI/CD secrets during installation.

Feross Aboukhadijeh joins TBPN to discuss Socket's $60M Series C, 500%+ ARR growth, AI's impact on open source, and the rise in supply chain attacks.

TrapDoor crypto stealer hits 36 malicious packages across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io, targeting crypto, DeFi, AI, and security developers.

Packagist urges PHP projects to update Composer after a GitHub token format change exposed some GitHub Actions tokens in CI logs.