Every time a developer types npm install, they are placing a bet that the package they are pulling into their project is not laced with malicious code. In 2025, those odds got significantly worse.

How do you investigate potentially malicious Web page code without infecting yourself? As a computer security defender, I’m often in a position where I need to investigate a potentially malicious Web ...

AI-generated computer code is rife with references to nonexistent third-party libraries, creating a golden opportunity for supply-chain attacks that poison legitimate programs with malicious packages ...

Attackers can hide their attempts to execute malicious code by inserting commands into the machine code stored in memory by the software interpreters used by many programming languages, such as ...

An unknown threat actor is deploying a large-scale, sophisticated cryptojacking campaign through a series of malicious extensions in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight source-code editor, ...

Researchers found malicious packages on the npm registry that, when installed, inject malicious code into legitimate npm packages already residing on developers’ machines. Attackers who target ...

Developers are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) programming assistants for help writing code, but new research shows they need to analyze code suggestions before incorporating them into their ...

Malicious actors are now injecting malicious codes into legitimate projects to steal digital assets from unsuspecting users. According to reports, cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a ...