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Charlie Eriksen
Blog posts by Charlie Eriksen
First Sophisticated Malware Discovered on Maven Central via Typosquatting Attack on Jackson
We uncovered the first sophisticated malware campaign on Maven Central: a typosquatted Jackson package delivering multi-stage payloads and Cobalt Strike beacons via Spring Boot auto-execution.
The Fork Awakens: Why GitHub’s Invisible Networks Break Package Security
A deep dive into a GitHub security flaw where forked commits let attackers spoof dependencies. Understand the commit SHA issue and why package managers need API-level protection.
Shai Hulud 2.0: What the Unknown Wonderer Tells Us About the Attackers’ Endgame
New research into the Shai Hulud 2.0 malware suggests the username UnknownWonderer1 tells us more about the attackers’ endgame.
Shai Hulud Launches Second Supply-Chain Attack: Zapier, ENS, AsyncAPI, PostHog, Postman Compromised
The threat actor behind “Shai Hulud 2.0” launched a new malware campaign compromising the supply chain of Zapier, ENS Domains and more — exposing secrets, injecting malicious code, and enabling widespread developer-environment takeover.
Invisible Unicode Malware Strikes OpenVSX, Again
Another wave of Open VSX extensions were compromised today.
Bugs in Shai-Hulud: Debugging the Desert
The Shai Hulud worm had some bugs of its own, and required patching by the attackers. We also look at a timeline of events, to see how it unfolded.
S1ngularity/nx attackers strike again
The attackers behind the nx attack have struck again, targeting a large amount of packages, with a first-of-its-kind worm payload.
We Got Lucky: The Supply Chain Disaster That Almost Happened
Eighteen widely used open source packages were compromised, downloaded billions of times and embedded across nearly every cloud environment. The community dodged a bullet. But this close call shows just how fragile our software supply chain really is.
duckdb npm packages compromised
The popular package duckdb was compromised by same attackers that hit debug and chalk
npm debug and chalk packages compromised
The popular packages debug and chalk on npm have been compromised with malicious code
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