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Introducing Organization Notifications in Socket
Socket has introduced Organization Notifications, a new feature allowing security teams to subscribe to, filter, and receive batched email updates for organization-level security alerts. This capability aims to streamline vulnerability management and reduce alert fatigue by grouping updates and sending them at most every 20 minutes, with Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations planned for the future.
Analyzed:2026-04-23reports
Key Takeaways
- Socket has launched Organization Notifications to provide batched, organization-level alert updates via email.
- Users can subscribe to specific alert lifecycle events: created, changed, and cleared.
- Alerts can be filtered by category (e.g., Supply chain risk, Vulnerability), severity, priority, and repository to reduce noise.
- Updates are batched and sent at most once every 20 minutes to prevent inbox fatigue.
- Sample alerts detected by Socket include arbitrary code execution in npm protobufjs, ReDOS in semver-regex, and prototype pollution in minimist.
Affected Systems
- Socket platform (Team, Business, and Enterprise plans)
- npm protobufjs (Example vulnerability)
- npm semver-regex (Example vulnerability)
- npm @fastify/static (Example vulnerability)
- npm minimist (Example vulnerability)
- npm is-obj (Example unmaintained package)
Detection Availability
- YARA Rules: No
- Sigma Rules: No
- Snort/Suricata Rules: No
- KQL Queries: No
- Splunk SPL Queries: No
- EQL Queries: No
- Other Detection Logic: No
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Detection Engineering Assessment
EDR Visibility: None — This is a product feature announcement regarding alerting capabilities, not a threat report detailing endpoint behavior. Network Visibility: None — This is a product feature announcement, not a threat report detailing network indicators. Detection Difficulty: N/A — Not applicable to product announcements.
Hunting Hypotheses
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| Hypothesis | Telemetry | ATT&CK Stage | FP Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monitor for the introduction of known vulnerable npm packages (e.g., protobufjs, minimist, semver-regex) into the CI/CD pipeline or developer environments to identify potential supply chain risks. | Software Composition Analysis (SCA) logs, CI/CD pipeline build logs | Initial Access | Low |
Recommendations
Immediate Mitigation
- Configure Socket Organization Notifications to route critical supply chain and vulnerability alerts to the appropriate security team inbox.
Infrastructure Hardening
- N/A
User Protection
- N/A
Security Awareness
- Train development teams on the importance of addressing high and critical severity alerts surfaced by SCA tools, such as prototype pollution or arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in npm packages.
