Detecting Supply Chain Attacks in NPM, PyPI, and Docker: Real-World Techniques That Work

The digital ecosystem breathes through trust. Every npm install, every pip install, every docker pull represents a leap of faith — a developer placing confidence in code written by strangers, maintained by volunteers, distributed through systems they’ve never seen. This trust, however, has become the Achilles’ heel of modern software development.

Supply chain attacks don’t knock on your front door. They slip through the dependencies you invited in yourself.