This weekly list covers the ten most significant malicious or compromised packages recently observed in public registries.
1. puppeteer-core (npm)
* Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/puppeteer-core
* Severity: critical
* Affected versions: 25.1.0
* Downloads: 18014723
* First seen: 2 June 2026 at
This weekly list covers the ten most significant malicious or compromised packages recently observed in public registries.
1. events-channel (npm)
* Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/events-channel
* Severity: critical
* Affected versions: all
* Downloads: 39778
* First seen: 25 May 2026 at 16:42
Your NuGet packages are a bigger attack surface than your code.
Think about it: when was the last time you audited a dependency before running dotnet add package? You check the download count, maybe the GitHub stars, and move on. Meanwhile, you&
This weekly list covers the ten most significant malicious or compromised packages recently observed in public registries.
1. durabletask (pypi)
* Package: https://pypi.org/project/durabletask/
* Severity: critical
* Affected versions: 1.4.1-1.4.3
* Downloads: 386297
* First seen: 19 May 2026
GitHub Actions is one of the most convenient ways to automate builds, tests, releases, and deployments. It is also one of the easiest places to accidentally hand attackers a path into your software supply chain when workflow trust boundaries are too loose.
In ShieldedStack, the Control Plane frontend doesn’t manually define API calls. Instead, it consumes a fully generated, strongly typed TypeScript client. Built directly from the backend’s OpenAPI specification using Kiota.
This approach keeps the frontend and backend in lockstep, eliminates