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GeneralSecurity scanners gave it a clean bill of health. GitHub stars suggested community trust. The skill looked legitimate by every conventional measure. Then it changed—after installation—and roughly 26,0
IncidentOn June 18, 2026, GitHub updated actions/checkout to prevent fetching fork pull request code when triggered by pull_request_target or workflow_run events. This change addresses an attack pattern where
ResearchYour team wants to integrate AI agents into your development workflow. You find a plugin registry with hundreds of options. Some have official-looking scope names. Some claim to be maintained by the r
IncidentWhat Happened On February 6, 2020, the Node.js project released emergency patches for versions 10.x, 12.x, and 13.x to address one critical and two high-severity vulnerabilities. The critical flaw, tr
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IncidentA developer at a Fortune 100 technology company opened their AI coding assistant one morning. Within minutes, an attacker was executing code on their machine—no credential theft, no malware download,
IncidentWhat Happened On February 20, 2020, CNVD published details of CVE-2020-1938—a vulnerability affecting Apache Tomcat versions 6 through 9. Discovered by Chaitin Tech on January 3rd, the flaw exploited
GeneralScope - What This Guide Covers This guide addresses dependency confusion and typo-squatting attacks targeting Python package installations. You ll find concrete verification steps, tooling recommendat
GeneralWhat Changed Asymptote Labs has released Agent Beacon under the MIT license—an open-source telemetry layer that collects and normalizes activity data from AI coding agents across local endpoints, CI p
IncidentWhat Happened A denial of service vulnerability was present in urllib3 , a widely-used Python HTTP library, between versions 1.25.2 and 1.25.8. This flaw allowed attackers to exhaust resources through
IncidentWhat Happened On June 2, 2020, security researcher Robert McLaughlin discovered a Regular Expression Denial-of-Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the websocket-extensions package using an automated tool
ResearchWhen mobile teams discovered that a seemingly legitimate advertising SDK was doing more than displaying ads, they faced serious security challenges. Snyk found that the Mintegral SDK included method s
IncidentWhat Happened On March 27, 2020, Danny Thomas disclosed CVE-2020-7599 , a vulnerability in Gradle s plugin-publish plugin that exposed pre-signed AWS URLs in log output. Every version below 0.11.0 was
IncidentWhat Happened The Snyk Research Team discovered an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Grunt, a widely-used JavaScript task runner that automates development tasks. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-7
IncidentWhat Happened In 2020, security researcher po6ix discovered a prototype pollution vulnerability in express-fileupload, a Node.js package for handling file uploads. Snyk confirmed the finding and assig
IncidentWhat happened On March 11th, 2020, Snyk disclosed CVE-2020-7598 , a prototype pollution vulnerability in minimist, an npm package that parses command-line arguments. The package sees roughly 1 million
GeneralYou ve probably heard the advice: Write clear code comments. Maybe you ve even enforced it in your team s style guide. But in security reviews, repositories often have helpful inline comments alongsid
