An apparent "Dune" aficionado is responsible for perpetrating the first self-propagating attack on the npm JavaScript repository in what a security company has described as being one of the most ...

Days after IBM and Red Hat announced a master security plan for open-source software, Red Hat suffers a major breach of its own. Here's what you can do about it.

A hacker has gained access to a developer's npm account and injected malicious code into a popular JavaScript library, code that was designed to steal the npm credentials of users who utilize the ...

Any development environment that installed or imported one of the 172 compromised npm or PyPI packages published since May 11 should be treated as potentially compromised. On affected developer ...

Malicious code continues to be uploaded to open source repositories, making it a challenge for responsible developers to trust what’s there, and for CISOs to trust applications that include open ...

With npm v12, GitHub closes a central attack vector: installation scripts from dependencies will only run after explicit approval from July 2026.