The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

npm under siege (what to do about it) (Friends)


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Over the past two months, we’ve seen some of the most serious supply chain attacks in npm history: phishing campaigns, maintainer account takeovers, and malware published to packages with billions of weekly downloads. What is going on?! What can we do about it? Our old friend, Feross Aboukhadijeh, joins us to help make sense of it all.

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  • Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
  • Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Show Notes:

  • Active supply chain attack: npm phishing campaign
  • Npm phishing email targets developers with typosquat
  • Nx npm packages compromised in supply chain attack
  • Introducing socket firewall
  • Changelog News Classifieds
  • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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