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Socket is an initial recipient of OpenAI's Cybersecurity Grant Program, which commits $10M in API credits to defenders securing open source software.

Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh joins 10 Minutes or Less, a podcast by Ali Rohde, to discuss the recent surge in open source supply chain attacks.

Campaign of 108 extensions harvests identities, steals sessions, and adds backdoors to browsers, all tied to the same C2 infrastructure.

OpenAI rotated macOS signing certificates after a malicious Axios package reached its CI pipeline in a broader software supply chain attack.

Open source is under attack because of how much value it creates. It has been the foundation of every major software innovation for the last three decades. This is not the time to walk away from it.

Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh breaks down how North Korea hijacked Axios and what it means for the future of software supply chain security.

OpenSSF has issued a high-severity advisory warning open source developers of an active Slack-based campaign using impersonation to deliver malware.

Malicious packages published to npm, PyPI, Go Modules, crates.io, and Packagist impersonate developer tooling to fetch staged malware, steal credentials and wallets, and enable remote access.

Microsoft has released an open source toolkit for enforcing runtime security policies on AI agents as adoption accelerates faster than governance controls.

Multiple high-impact npm maintainers confirm they have been targeted in the same social engineering campaign that compromised Axios.

Axios compromise traced to social engineering, showing how attacks on maintainers can bypass controls and expose the broader software supply chain.

Node.js has paused its bug bounty program after funding ended, removing payouts for vulnerability reports but keeping its security process unchanged.

The Axios compromise shows how time-dependent dependency resolution makes exposure harder to detect and contain.

TeamPCP is partnering with ransomware group Vect to turn open source supply chain attacks on tools like Trivy and LiteLLM into large-scale ransomware operations.

Widespread GitHub phishing campaign uses fake Visual Studio Code security alerts in Discussions to trick developers into visiting malicious website.

Five malicious npm packages typosquatting crypto libraries steal private keys via Telegram, targeting Solana and Ethereum developers, with active C2 infrastructure.

TeamPCP is targeting security tools across the OSS ecosystem, turning scanners and CI pipelines into infostealers to access enterprise secrets.

TypeScript 6.0 introduces new standard APIs, modern default settings, and deprecations as it prepares projects for the upcoming TypeScript 7.0 release.

Newly published Trivy Docker images (0.69.4, 0.69.5, and 0.69.6) were found to contain infostealer IOCs and were pushed to Docker Hub without corresponding GitHub releases.

The worm-enabled campaign hit @emilgroup and @teale.io, then used an ICP canister to deliver follow-on payloads.

Attackers compromised Trivy GitHub Actions by force-updating tags to deliver malware, exposing CI/CD secrets across affected pipelines.

ENISA’s new package manager advisory outlines the dependency security practices companies will need to demonstrate as the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act begins enforcing software supply chain requirements.

We identified over 20 additional malicious extensions, along with over 20 related sleeper extensions, some of which have already been weaponized.

TC39’s March 2026 meeting advanced eight ECMAScript proposals, including Temporal reaching Stage 4 and securing its place in the ECMAScript 2026 specification.