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Hackers Reap Minimal Gains from Massive npm Supply Chain Breach

On September 8th, 2025, at approximately 9AM EST, the npm ecosystem faced an acute supply chain attack. A threat actor leveraged social engineering techniques to compromise the account of well-known npm developer Qix, subsequently publishing malicious releases for several widely-used…

Why organizations need a new approach to risk management

To succeed in the risk environment, risk, audit, and compliance leaders need to focus on what Gartner calls “reflexive risk ownership.” This is a future state where business leaders don’t just identify and manage risks after they occur, but instinctively…

The state of DMARC adoption: What 10M domains reveal

In this Help Net Security video, John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra, explores the state of DMARC adoption across the top 10 million internet domains. He explains how SPF, DKIM, and DMARC work together to prevent email spoofing,…

AI is everywhere, but scaling it is another story

AI is being adopted across industries, but many organizations are hitting the same obstacles, according to Tines. IT leaders say orchestration is the key to scaling AI. They point to governance, visibility, and collaboration as the critical areas executives need…

How attackers weaponize communications networks

In this Help Net Security interview, Gregory Richardson, Vice President, Advisory CISO Worldwide, at BlackBerry, talks about the growing risks to communications networks. He explains why attackers focus on these networks and how their motivations range from corporate espionage to…

DShield SIEM Docker Updates, (Wed, Sep 10th)

Since the last update [5], over the past few months I added several enhancements to DShield SIEM and webhoneypot sensor collection that included an update to the interface to help with DShield sensor analysis. I updated the main dashboard to…

How npm Security Collapsed Thanks To a 2FA Exploit

Billions (No, that’s not a typo, Billions with a capital B) of files were potentially compromised. If you thought Node Package Manager (npm), the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js‘s default package manager, had finally stopped having serious security problems, you thought…