Analysis of malicious open source packages from Datadog's malicious packages dataset. Each of these packages were found in the wild and confirmed to be malicious. The goal of this analysis is to understand the nature of malicious OSS packages and how they are distributed in the wild.
Experiments with agentic workflows for malicious package analysis built using Claude Desktop, Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, static code analysis and SafeDep Cloud API tools.
Possible typosquatting against @istanbuljs/load-nyc-config with ~25M weekly downloads.
Multiple npm packages impersonating popular package names were published to the npm registry including by a Snyk researcher apparently targeting internal packages at Cursor AI.
Multiple npm packages impersonating popular package names are being used to distribute malware. We take a closer look at the campaign.
