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Deep dives, expert analysis, and practical guidance on exposure management, adversarial validation, and the future of AI-driven exposure management.
The TanStack npm Supply Chain Attack That Hit 170 Packages and Punishes You for Revoking Your Token
The TanStack npm supply chain attack hit 12 million weekly downloads using three public techniques and zero novel code. Here is exactly how it worked.
Strobes VI Now Tracks Supply Chain Attacks, Ransomware Groups, and Threat Actors
224,487 supply chain incidents. 1,251 threat actors. Ransomware groups tracked in real time. Strobes VI now provides the threat intelligence layer that powers proactive exposure management, starting with the lessons from the Axios npm compromise.
How Strobes AI Turns a Supply Chain Zero-Day into a Full Exposure Assessment in Under 30 Minutes
When the axios npm package was compromised on March 31, 2026, Strobes AI agents autonomously performed incident response, identified every exposed repository across the attack surface, and generated a complete exposure assessment with remediation tasks in under 30 minutes.
Axios npm Supply Chain Attack: 83M Weekly Downloads Compromised by Cross-Platform RAT
On March 31, 2026, attackers compromised the axios npm maintainer account and published backdoored versions deploying a cross-platform RAT to macOS, Windows, and Linux. Full incident breakdown with IOCs, detection guidance, and real-time AI-driven response.
How One Phishing Email Compromised 18 npm Packages and Billions of Installs
On September 8, 2025, a single phishing email triggered one of npm’s most damaging supply chain attacks, compromising 18 popular JavaScript packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads. By tricking a maintainer into revealing credentials and 2FA codes, attackers injected crypto-stealing malware i