Malicious Packages

2026-05-133 minSocketlow

Socket has been selected for OpenAI's Cybersecurity Grant Program, gaining API credits and access to frontier models via the Trusted Access for Cyber framework. This partnership enhances Socket's ability to detect malicious packages in open-source registries like npm and PyPI in near real-time, countering the increasing speed and automation of supply chain attacks.

2026-05-136 minSockethigh

North Korea's Contagious Interview campaign has launched a coordinated supply chain attack across five major open-source ecosystems. The threat actors published malicious packages masquerading as legitimate developer tools that act as staged loaders to deliver remote access trojans (RATs) and infostealers to developer workstations.