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Insecure Agents Podcast: Certified Patches, Supply Chain Security, and AI Agents
Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh joins Insecure Agents to discuss CVE remediation and why supply chain attacks require a different security approach.
Quickly evaluate the security and health of any open source package.
cubie
2.0.0
by aethera
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The code implements a file uploader that sends local files to a hardcoded external server without user consent or validation. This behavior constitutes a high security risk due to potential unauthorized data exfiltration. While the code is not obfuscated and contains no explicit malware payloads like backdoors or reverse shells, the act of uploading arbitrary files to an untrusted third-party domain is suspicious and likely malicious in a supply chain context. Users should avoid using this package as it poses a significant privacy and security threat.
pinokiod
3.184.0
by cocktailpeanut
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The SweetAlert2 library code is mostly benign and serves as a UI modal dialog tool. However, it contains a suspicious and potentially malicious snippet that targets Russian users on certain domains to play an unsolicited audio prank, disabling pointer events and potentially disrupting user interaction. This behavior is unexpected and should be considered a moderate security risk and potential malware. The rest of the code shows no signs of malicious intent. The provided reports were invalid and unhelpful. Users should be cautious about this version of the library due to the embedded prank behavior.
opensr-degradation
0.9.1
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
The file is a Torch/Pickle serialized model bundle (segmentation model + efficientnet encoder + weights) containing many binary pickles and debug metadata. I found no explicit plaintext backdoor indicators (hardcoded credentials, network endpoints, shell code) in the visible text, but this format (pickle/torch serialization) is inherently dangerous to load from untrusted sources because unpickling can execute arbitrary code. Recommendation: treat this as data only; do NOT load with torch.load or pickle.load in an untrusted environment. Verify provenance (checksums, signatures, trusted origin) and, when possible, load in a sandboxed environment or convert models via safer formats (e.g. ONNX with verified tooling) where applicable. If you must use torch.load, ensure it’s from a trusted source and consider loading map_location and strict options and run in isolated runtime.
cl-lite
1.0.678
by michael_tian
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The provided source code is not valid software code but a corrupted or maliciously injected blob containing adult content metadata and URLs. There is no executable code to analyze for malware, but the presence of inappropriate content indicates a severe supply chain compromise or injection attack. The reports are invalid and provide no security insights. This package should be rejected and flagged as highly suspicious and dangerous.
ailever
0.3.229
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
This script is a high-risk launcher: it unconditionally fetches Python code from a hardcoded remote repo and executes it locally via a shell-invoked Python process while passing unsanitized user inputs directly into the shell command. Even if the upstream repository is currently benign, the pattern enables trivial supply-chain compromise and shell injection. Mitigations: remove runtime download-and-exec; if fetching is necessary, pin and verify cryptographic hashes or signatures, validate content, avoid os.system (use subprocess with argument lists or importlib), sanitize inputs, and add error handling and logging. Treat this module as unsafe in security-sensitive environments until hardened.
vuln-app
1.5.0
by sudosnail42
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The code poses a security risk due to the use of exec to perform a network request to an external URL. This could potentially be used for unauthorized data transmission or remote command execution. The lack of context or validation increases the risk of misuse.
Live on npm for 15 hours before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
sh-py
16.73
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
The module contains multiple high-risk and malicious patterns: self-modifying source, embedded cleartext PyPI credentials, encrypted/hidden payloads restored and executed at runtime, widespread arbitrary shell execution built from untrusted inputs, and attempts to remove its own traces and to manipulate processes. Treat this package as malicious and unsafe for use in trusted environments. Immediate actions: do not install or run; isolate any systems that ran it; rotate any credentials that may have been written; perform a forensic review of files changed by the script; block associated accounts/domains and revoke PyPI credentials if used.
cl-lite
1.0.358
by michael_tian
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This fragment is spammy and potentially dangerous as content because it promotes downloads from untrusted hosts, redirector links, raw IP:port addresses, and services (VPNs, account sales). The fragment itself contains no executable code or direct backdoor, but it serves as a high-risk social-engineering vector: following links can lead to malware, credential theft, or fraud. If this HTML/text is bundled in a package (README, docs, or assets) it should be removed or sanitized. Do not click the provided links, and treat any included installers (APK/EXE/DMG) as untrusted until verified. Overall: not programmatic malware, but high security risk due to external links and content.
samplenodejsservice
5.0.0
by amsrisru
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The code presents significant security risks due to the collection and transmission of sensitive system information and the use of hardcoded credentials. This behavior can be considered malicious if done without user consent.
Live on npm for 14 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
framewire
1.2.1
by chrismourn
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is a heavily-obfuscated mass-email/templating/sending module with features (proxy rotation, bulk SMTP, attachment obfuscation, automated conversion to multiple document formats, EML generation, and per-recipient templating using environment-derived fake details) that are commonly used for large-scale phishing or spam campaigns. No explicit system-level backdoor or reverse shell is visible in this fragment, but the combination of capabilities, deliberate obfuscation, and network-sending sinks makes it a high risk for misuse. Treat as potentially malicious in supply-chain contexts and audit the rest of the package and its dependencies before use.
pinokiod
3.70.0
by cocktailpeanut
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The SweetAlert2 library code is mostly benign and serves as a UI modal dialog tool. However, it contains a suspicious and potentially malicious snippet that targets Russian users on certain domains to play an unsolicited audio prank, disabling pointer events and potentially disrupting user interaction. This behavior is unexpected and should be considered a moderate security risk and potential malware. The rest of the code shows no signs of malicious intent. The provided reports were invalid and unhelpful. Users should be cautious about this version of the library due to the embedded prank behavior.
github.com/milvus-io/milvus
v0.10.3-0.20211020133236-de43c1a2ed62
Live on Go Modules
Blocked by Socket
This code implements an insecure, unauthenticated RPC mechanism that allows remote clients to cause arbitrary code execution and exfiltrate files/system information. Using pickle over an untrusted network and invoking methods by client-supplied names are severe supply-chain/backdoor risks. Do not deploy or reuse this code in production; it should be treated as a backdoor/untrusted remote-execution component unless wrapped with strong authentication, authorization, sandboxing, and safe serialization.
imagecomponents.core.imaging
4.0.4.2
by Image Components
Live on NuGet
Blocked by Socket
The code is intentionally obfuscated and implements a runtime loader that decrypts embedded data and performs native memory allocation, writing, protection changes, and execution via delegates/func-pointers. It also includes process/module enumeration and multiple low-level native API calls (VirtualAlloc, WriteProcessMemory, VirtualProtect, LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress). These are strong indicators of an in-memory loader/injector/payload runner. This behavior is highly suspicious for an open-source dependency and represents a serious supply-chain risk unless the package's purpose explicitly requires such functionality (which is uncommon). Recommend not using this package and performing full dynamic analysis / provenance review if needed.
isvalidkey
2.3.8
by loifaith
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The flagged file exports a function named `isvalidkey` that, instead of validating input, unconditionally sends its argument to a hardcoded Telegram bot API endpoint (https://api[.]telegram[.]org/bot8156914790:AAHNd2ytOGqd_nC10BP64O2Z_Lx5nLXRb8E/sendMessage) with chat_id `-1003084751087`. Errors from the network call are silently ignored, and the function always returns true. Any data passed—including API keys, passwords, or environment variables—will be exfiltrated to a Telegram chat controlled by the attacker. This constitutes a backdoor and supply-chain malware that can leak sensitive information without user consent.
identity-auth
10.999.0
by lanielblaze
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The code exhibits behavior typical of malware, specifically designed to collect and exfiltrate sensitive system information through DNS queries to a suspicious domain. This poses a significant security risk.
@stripo/npm
471.1.0
by neversummer.69
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is intentionally obfuscated and uses DNS queries to exfiltrate system information, which could be a significant security risk. The hardcoded domain and the potential data exfiltration raise concerns about privacy violations. This package should be reviewed carefully before being used.
ailever
0.2.407
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
The fragment contains a high-risk pattern: it downloads a Python script from a remote source and immediately executes it without integrity verification or sandboxing. This creates a critical supply-chain and remote-code-execution risk, as the remote payload could perform any action on the host, including data exfiltration, credential access, or system compromise. Even though defaults use placeholders, the mechanism itself is unsafe and should be disallowed or hardened (e.g., verify hashes, use signed modules, avoid executing remote code).
opsmate
0.1.39a1
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
This module is an LLM-driven orchestrator that exposes powerful actions (shell execution, GitHub repo modifications, working-directory changes) directly to a model without visible safeguards. The file is syntactically incomplete, but the design is high-risk: a compromised model, malicious prompt, or inadvertent instruction could trigger arbitrary command execution, repository tampering, or leakage of secrets via printed tool outputs. There is no direct evidence of embedded malware or obfuscation in this snippet, but running this code as-is (or completing it) in a privileged environment would be unsafe without strict mitigations: sandboxing, credential scoping, human authorization, command allowlists, output redaction, and audit logging.
pkscreener
0.46.20250213.710
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
This module implements covert telemetry/exfiltration: it silently collects local username and IP-based location and uploads daily aggregated records to a hardcoded GitHub repository. That behavior is privacy-invasive and constitutes a supply-chain risk for consumers of the package. The implementation uses weak obfuscation (base64), brittle JSON handling, and swallows exceptions, increasing the likelihood of stealthy, unintended data leakage. Actionable advice: treat this as malicious/unwanted telemetry unless documented explicit opt-in exists; remove or disable the telemetry code, or require explicit user consent and secure the transport (authentication and encryption), and fix robust JSON/file handling and error reporting before use.
ailever
0.2.429
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
This script is a high-risk launcher: it unconditionally fetches Python code from a hardcoded remote repo and executes it locally via a shell-invoked Python process while passing unsanitized user inputs directly into the shell command. Even if the upstream repository is currently benign, the pattern enables trivial supply-chain compromise and shell injection. Mitigations: remove runtime download-and-exec; if fetching is necessary, pin and verify cryptographic hashes or signatures, validate content, avoid os.system (use subprocess with argument lists or importlib), sanitize inputs, and add error handling and logging. Treat this module as unsafe in security-sensitive environments until hardened.
asddotnet.plc.views
2.30.11.66
by QingHui.Zhang
Live on NuGet
Blocked by Socket
This assembly contains a legitimate-looking PLC WPF UI component, but also a separate, heavily obfuscated module that decrypts embedded resources and provides runtime code-loading and low-level native process memory operations (VirtualAlloc, WriteProcessMemory, VirtualProtect, OpenProcess). Those capabilities are typical of in-memory loaders, process injectors, or backdoors. Given the combination of obfuscation, encrypted resources, dynamic method creation and direct native memory write APIs, this code is highly suspicious and likely malicious or at least contains functionality outside expected behavior for a UI PLC library. I recommend not using this package and conducting a deeper dynamic/runtime analysis (sandbox execution, unpack the embedded resources, inspect decrypted payloads) and checking package provenance.
dvuln
0.1.9
by crazyproger1
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is malicious: it injects attacker-controlled HTML to present a phishing login form, captures plaintext credentials and session cookies, exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled ngrok WebSocket, and redirects the user afterward. It constitutes credential and session theft and should be treated as a high-risk backdoor/phishing artifact. Remove and block the code and the remote endpoints, and investigate any exposed credentials or sessions.
Live on npm for 15 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
cubie
2.0.0
by aethera
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The code implements a file uploader that sends local files to a hardcoded external server without user consent or validation. This behavior constitutes a high security risk due to potential unauthorized data exfiltration. While the code is not obfuscated and contains no explicit malware payloads like backdoors or reverse shells, the act of uploading arbitrary files to an untrusted third-party domain is suspicious and likely malicious in a supply chain context. Users should avoid using this package as it poses a significant privacy and security threat.
pinokiod
3.184.0
by cocktailpeanut
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The SweetAlert2 library code is mostly benign and serves as a UI modal dialog tool. However, it contains a suspicious and potentially malicious snippet that targets Russian users on certain domains to play an unsolicited audio prank, disabling pointer events and potentially disrupting user interaction. This behavior is unexpected and should be considered a moderate security risk and potential malware. The rest of the code shows no signs of malicious intent. The provided reports were invalid and unhelpful. Users should be cautious about this version of the library due to the embedded prank behavior.
opensr-degradation
0.9.1
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
The file is a Torch/Pickle serialized model bundle (segmentation model + efficientnet encoder + weights) containing many binary pickles and debug metadata. I found no explicit plaintext backdoor indicators (hardcoded credentials, network endpoints, shell code) in the visible text, but this format (pickle/torch serialization) is inherently dangerous to load from untrusted sources because unpickling can execute arbitrary code. Recommendation: treat this as data only; do NOT load with torch.load or pickle.load in an untrusted environment. Verify provenance (checksums, signatures, trusted origin) and, when possible, load in a sandboxed environment or convert models via safer formats (e.g. ONNX with verified tooling) where applicable. If you must use torch.load, ensure it’s from a trusted source and consider loading map_location and strict options and run in isolated runtime.
cl-lite
1.0.678
by michael_tian
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The provided source code is not valid software code but a corrupted or maliciously injected blob containing adult content metadata and URLs. There is no executable code to analyze for malware, but the presence of inappropriate content indicates a severe supply chain compromise or injection attack. The reports are invalid and provide no security insights. This package should be rejected and flagged as highly suspicious and dangerous.
ailever
0.3.229
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
This script is a high-risk launcher: it unconditionally fetches Python code from a hardcoded remote repo and executes it locally via a shell-invoked Python process while passing unsanitized user inputs directly into the shell command. Even if the upstream repository is currently benign, the pattern enables trivial supply-chain compromise and shell injection. Mitigations: remove runtime download-and-exec; if fetching is necessary, pin and verify cryptographic hashes or signatures, validate content, avoid os.system (use subprocess with argument lists or importlib), sanitize inputs, and add error handling and logging. Treat this module as unsafe in security-sensitive environments until hardened.
vuln-app
1.5.0
by sudosnail42
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The code poses a security risk due to the use of exec to perform a network request to an external URL. This could potentially be used for unauthorized data transmission or remote command execution. The lack of context or validation increases the risk of misuse.
Live on npm for 15 hours before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
sh-py
16.73
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
The module contains multiple high-risk and malicious patterns: self-modifying source, embedded cleartext PyPI credentials, encrypted/hidden payloads restored and executed at runtime, widespread arbitrary shell execution built from untrusted inputs, and attempts to remove its own traces and to manipulate processes. Treat this package as malicious and unsafe for use in trusted environments. Immediate actions: do not install or run; isolate any systems that ran it; rotate any credentials that may have been written; perform a forensic review of files changed by the script; block associated accounts/domains and revoke PyPI credentials if used.
cl-lite
1.0.358
by michael_tian
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This fragment is spammy and potentially dangerous as content because it promotes downloads from untrusted hosts, redirector links, raw IP:port addresses, and services (VPNs, account sales). The fragment itself contains no executable code or direct backdoor, but it serves as a high-risk social-engineering vector: following links can lead to malware, credential theft, or fraud. If this HTML/text is bundled in a package (README, docs, or assets) it should be removed or sanitized. Do not click the provided links, and treat any included installers (APK/EXE/DMG) as untrusted until verified. Overall: not programmatic malware, but high security risk due to external links and content.
samplenodejsservice
5.0.0
by amsrisru
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The code presents significant security risks due to the collection and transmission of sensitive system information and the use of hardcoded credentials. This behavior can be considered malicious if done without user consent.
Live on npm for 14 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
framewire
1.2.1
by chrismourn
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is a heavily-obfuscated mass-email/templating/sending module with features (proxy rotation, bulk SMTP, attachment obfuscation, automated conversion to multiple document formats, EML generation, and per-recipient templating using environment-derived fake details) that are commonly used for large-scale phishing or spam campaigns. No explicit system-level backdoor or reverse shell is visible in this fragment, but the combination of capabilities, deliberate obfuscation, and network-sending sinks makes it a high risk for misuse. Treat as potentially malicious in supply-chain contexts and audit the rest of the package and its dependencies before use.
pinokiod
3.70.0
by cocktailpeanut
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The SweetAlert2 library code is mostly benign and serves as a UI modal dialog tool. However, it contains a suspicious and potentially malicious snippet that targets Russian users on certain domains to play an unsolicited audio prank, disabling pointer events and potentially disrupting user interaction. This behavior is unexpected and should be considered a moderate security risk and potential malware. The rest of the code shows no signs of malicious intent. The provided reports were invalid and unhelpful. Users should be cautious about this version of the library due to the embedded prank behavior.
github.com/milvus-io/milvus
v0.10.3-0.20211020133236-de43c1a2ed62
Live on Go Modules
Blocked by Socket
This code implements an insecure, unauthenticated RPC mechanism that allows remote clients to cause arbitrary code execution and exfiltrate files/system information. Using pickle over an untrusted network and invoking methods by client-supplied names are severe supply-chain/backdoor risks. Do not deploy or reuse this code in production; it should be treated as a backdoor/untrusted remote-execution component unless wrapped with strong authentication, authorization, sandboxing, and safe serialization.
imagecomponents.core.imaging
4.0.4.2
by Image Components
Live on NuGet
Blocked by Socket
The code is intentionally obfuscated and implements a runtime loader that decrypts embedded data and performs native memory allocation, writing, protection changes, and execution via delegates/func-pointers. It also includes process/module enumeration and multiple low-level native API calls (VirtualAlloc, WriteProcessMemory, VirtualProtect, LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress). These are strong indicators of an in-memory loader/injector/payload runner. This behavior is highly suspicious for an open-source dependency and represents a serious supply-chain risk unless the package's purpose explicitly requires such functionality (which is uncommon). Recommend not using this package and performing full dynamic analysis / provenance review if needed.
isvalidkey
2.3.8
by loifaith
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The flagged file exports a function named `isvalidkey` that, instead of validating input, unconditionally sends its argument to a hardcoded Telegram bot API endpoint (https://api[.]telegram[.]org/bot8156914790:AAHNd2ytOGqd_nC10BP64O2Z_Lx5nLXRb8E/sendMessage) with chat_id `-1003084751087`. Errors from the network call are silently ignored, and the function always returns true. Any data passed—including API keys, passwords, or environment variables—will be exfiltrated to a Telegram chat controlled by the attacker. This constitutes a backdoor and supply-chain malware that can leak sensitive information without user consent.
identity-auth
10.999.0
by lanielblaze
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The code exhibits behavior typical of malware, specifically designed to collect and exfiltrate sensitive system information through DNS queries to a suspicious domain. This poses a significant security risk.
@stripo/npm
471.1.0
by neversummer.69
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is intentionally obfuscated and uses DNS queries to exfiltrate system information, which could be a significant security risk. The hardcoded domain and the potential data exfiltration raise concerns about privacy violations. This package should be reviewed carefully before being used.
ailever
0.2.407
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
The fragment contains a high-risk pattern: it downloads a Python script from a remote source and immediately executes it without integrity verification or sandboxing. This creates a critical supply-chain and remote-code-execution risk, as the remote payload could perform any action on the host, including data exfiltration, credential access, or system compromise. Even though defaults use placeholders, the mechanism itself is unsafe and should be disallowed or hardened (e.g., verify hashes, use signed modules, avoid executing remote code).
opsmate
0.1.39a1
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
This module is an LLM-driven orchestrator that exposes powerful actions (shell execution, GitHub repo modifications, working-directory changes) directly to a model without visible safeguards. The file is syntactically incomplete, but the design is high-risk: a compromised model, malicious prompt, or inadvertent instruction could trigger arbitrary command execution, repository tampering, or leakage of secrets via printed tool outputs. There is no direct evidence of embedded malware or obfuscation in this snippet, but running this code as-is (or completing it) in a privileged environment would be unsafe without strict mitigations: sandboxing, credential scoping, human authorization, command allowlists, output redaction, and audit logging.
pkscreener
0.46.20250213.710
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
This module implements covert telemetry/exfiltration: it silently collects local username and IP-based location and uploads daily aggregated records to a hardcoded GitHub repository. That behavior is privacy-invasive and constitutes a supply-chain risk for consumers of the package. The implementation uses weak obfuscation (base64), brittle JSON handling, and swallows exceptions, increasing the likelihood of stealthy, unintended data leakage. Actionable advice: treat this as malicious/unwanted telemetry unless documented explicit opt-in exists; remove or disable the telemetry code, or require explicit user consent and secure the transport (authentication and encryption), and fix robust JSON/file handling and error reporting before use.
ailever
0.2.429
Live on PyPI
Blocked by Socket
This script is a high-risk launcher: it unconditionally fetches Python code from a hardcoded remote repo and executes it locally via a shell-invoked Python process while passing unsanitized user inputs directly into the shell command. Even if the upstream repository is currently benign, the pattern enables trivial supply-chain compromise and shell injection. Mitigations: remove runtime download-and-exec; if fetching is necessary, pin and verify cryptographic hashes or signatures, validate content, avoid os.system (use subprocess with argument lists or importlib), sanitize inputs, and add error handling and logging. Treat this module as unsafe in security-sensitive environments until hardened.
asddotnet.plc.views
2.30.11.66
by QingHui.Zhang
Live on NuGet
Blocked by Socket
This assembly contains a legitimate-looking PLC WPF UI component, but also a separate, heavily obfuscated module that decrypts embedded resources and provides runtime code-loading and low-level native process memory operations (VirtualAlloc, WriteProcessMemory, VirtualProtect, OpenProcess). Those capabilities are typical of in-memory loaders, process injectors, or backdoors. Given the combination of obfuscation, encrypted resources, dynamic method creation and direct native memory write APIs, this code is highly suspicious and likely malicious or at least contains functionality outside expected behavior for a UI PLC library. I recommend not using this package and conducting a deeper dynamic/runtime analysis (sandbox execution, unpack the embedded resources, inspect decrypted payloads) and checking package provenance.
dvuln
0.1.9
by crazyproger1
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is malicious: it injects attacker-controlled HTML to present a phishing login form, captures plaintext credentials and session cookies, exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled ngrok WebSocket, and redirects the user afterward. It constitutes credential and session theft and should be treated as a high-risk backdoor/phishing artifact. Remove and block the code and the remote endpoints, and investigate any exposed credentials or sessions.
Live on npm for 15 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
Socket detects traditional vulnerabilities (CVEs) but goes beyond that to scan the actual code of dependencies for malicious behavior. It proactively detects and blocks 70+ signals of supply chain risk in open source code, for comprehensive protection.
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Socket detects and blocks malicious dependencies, often within just minutes of them being published to public registries, making it the most effective tool for blocking zero-day supply chain attacks.
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Nat Friedman
CEO at GitHub

Suz Hinton
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
heck yes this is awesome!!! Congrats team 🎉👏

Matteo Collina
Node.js maintainer, Fastify lead maintainer
So awesome to see @SocketSecurity launch with a fresh approach! Excited to have supported the team from the early days.

DC Posch
Director of Technology at AppFolio, CTO at Dynasty
This is going to be super important, especially for crypto projects where a compromised dependency results in stolen user assets.

Luis Naranjo
Software Engineer at Microsoft
If software supply chain attacks through npm don't scare the shit out of you, you're not paying close enough attention.
@SocketSecurity sounds like an awesome product. I'll be using socket.dev instead of npmjs.org to browse npm packages going forward

Elena Nadolinski
Founder and CEO at Iron Fish
Huge congrats to @SocketSecurity! 🙌
Literally the only product that proactively detects signs of JS compromised packages.

Joe Previte
Engineering Team Lead at Coder
Congrats to @feross and the @SocketSecurity team on their seed funding! 🚀 It's been a big help for us at @CoderHQ and we appreciate what y'all are doing!

Josh Goldberg
Staff Developer at Codecademy
This is such a great idea & looks fantastic, congrats & good luck @feross + team!
The best security teams in the world use Socket to get visibility into supply chain risk, and to build a security feedback loop into the development process.

Scott Roberts
CISO at UiPath
As a happy Socket customer, I've been impressed with how quickly they are adding value to the product, this move is a great step!

Yan Zhu
Head of Security at Brave, DEFCON, EFF, W3C
glad to hear some of the smartest people i know are working on (npm, etc.) supply chain security finally :). @SocketSecurity

Andrew Peterson
CEO and Co-Founder at Signal Sciences (acq. Fastly)
How do you track the validity of open source software libraries as they get updated? You're prob not. Check out @SocketSecurity and the updated tooling they launched.
Supply chain is a cluster in security as we all know and the tools from Socket are "duh" type tools to be implementing. Check them out and follow Feross Aboukhadijeh to see more updates coming from them in the future.

Zbyszek Tenerowicz
Senior Security Engineer at ConsenSys
socket.dev is getting more appealing by the hour

Devdatta Akhawe
Head of Security at Figma
The @SocketSecurity team is on fire! Amazing progress and I am exciting to see where they go next.

Sebastian Bensusan
Engineer Manager at Stripe
I find it surprising that we don't have _more_ supply chain attacks in software:
Imagine your airplane (the code running) was assembled (deployed) daily, with parts (dependencies) from internet strangers. How long until you get a bad part?
Excited for Socket to prevent this

Adam Baldwin
VP of Security at npm, Red Team at Auth0/Okta
Congrats to everyone at @SocketSecurity ❤️🤘🏻

Nico Waisman
CISO at Lyft
This is an area that I have personally been very focused on. As Nat Friedman said in the 2019 GitHub Universe keynote, Open Source won, and every time you add a new open source project you rely on someone else code and you rely on the people that build it.
This is both exciting and problematic. You are bringing real risk into your organization, and I'm excited to see progress in the industry from OpenSSF scorecards and package analyzers to the company that Feross Aboukhadijeh is building!
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Attackers have taken notice of the opportunity to attack organizations through open source dependencies. Supply chain attacks rose a whopping 700% in the past year, with over 15,000 recorded attacks.
Nov 23, 2025
Shai Hulud v2
Shai Hulud v2 campaign: preinstall script (setup_bun.js) and loader (setup_bin.js) that installs/locates Bun and executes an obfuscated bundled malicious script (bun_environment.js) with suppressed output.
Nov 05, 2025
Elves on npm
A surge of auto-generated "elf-stats" npm packages is being published every two minutes from new accounts. These packages contain simple malware variants and are being rapidly removed by npm. At least 420 unique packages have been identified, often described as being generated every two minutes, with some mentioning a capture the flag challenge or test.
Jul 04, 2025
RubyGems Automation-Tool Infostealer
Since at least March 2023, a threat actor using multiple aliases uploaded 60 malicious gems to RubyGems that masquerade as automation tools (Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Telegram, WordPress, and Naver). The gems display a Korean Glimmer-DSL-LibUI login window, then exfiltrate the entered username/password and the host's MAC address via HTTP POST to threat actor-controlled infrastructure.
Mar 13, 2025
North Korea's Contagious Interview Campaign
Since late 2024, we have tracked hundreds of malicious npm packages and supporting infrastructure tied to North Korea's Contagious Interview operation, with tens of thousands of downloads targeting developers and tech job seekers. The threat actors run a factory-style playbook: recruiter lures and fake coding tests, polished GitHub templates, and typosquatted or deceptive dependencies that install or import into real projects.
Jul 23, 2024
Network Reconnaissance Campaign
A malicious npm supply chain attack that leveraged 60 packages across three disposable npm accounts to fingerprint developer workstations and CI/CD servers during installation. Each package embedded a compact postinstall script that collected hostnames, internal and external IP addresses, DNS resolvers, usernames, home and working directories, and package metadata, then exfiltrated this data as a JSON blob to a hardcoded Discord webhook.
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