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By Asaf Saar
The economics of continuous security at frontier-model prices, and why the math points back to independence. The frontier models are astonishing at finding vulnerabilities. That is not in dispute, and it is not what this piece is about. The question is not whether a frontier model can find a flaw in your code. It is whether you can afford to run one as your scanner, continuously, across your entire estate, the way real security actually works.
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By Alina Podoba
An attacker republished more than 140 packages in the @mastra npm scope, each carrying a single malicious dependency, easy-day-js. The malicious versions were observed on 2026-06-17. easy-day-js is a typosquat of the dayjs date library: version 1.11.21 is the clean prior release with no install hook, while version 1.11.22 adds an obfuscated postinstall dropper.
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By Asaf Saar
AI models that generate code are also the best at exploiting it. Here’s why independent verification, not the model itself, is the only trustworthy answer. This month, the US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its most capable models, Mythos 5 and the newly released Fable 5, for all foreign nationals, citing national security. The trigger was a single reported jailbreak that let one of those models slip past its own guardrails on cybersecurity tasks.
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By Shannon Davis
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) services are automated tools that scan codebases to find, identify, and manage open-source components, detecting security vulnerabilities (CVEs), licensing issues, and outdated libraries. They help teams maintain secure, compliant software by creating a software bill of materials (SBOM) and shifting security left in the development lifecycle (DevSecOps). Top providers include Mend.io, Snyk, and Checkmarx.
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By Alina Podoba
On June 1, 2026, multiple npm packages in the @redhat-cloud-services scope were published with malicious versions. Each tarball ships a 4.1 MB obfuscated JavaScript file added to package.json as a preinstall hook. The hook runs a multi-stage loader that ends in a Bun-executed credential stealer hitting AWS, Azure, GCP, HashiCorp Vault, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions OIDC, npm, Bitwarden, and 1Password.
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By Alina Podoba
On 2026-05-22, an attacker rewrote every repository tag across four Composer packages in the Laravel-Lang ecosystem to point at malicious commits. The affected packages are laravel-lang/lang, laravel-lang/attributes, laravel-lang/http-statuses, and laravel-lang/actions. The rewrite took place on 2026-05-22 into the early hours of 2026-05-23. Every malicious commit makes the same two-file change: one entry added to composer.json, and one new file at src/helpersphp.
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By Tiffany Jennings
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an EU regulation that sets binding cybersecurity requirements for any "product with digital elements" placed on the European Union market. It is the first horizontal EU law that holds manufacturers accountable for the security of hardware and software throughout the entire product lifecycle—from design to end-of-support.
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By Alina Podoba
An active supply chain attack has compromised 323 npm packages published under the atool npm maintainer account. The wave sweeps the entire @antv data-visualization organization alongside standalone libraries with wide independent adoption: echarts-for-react, timeago.js, size-sensor, and canvas-nest.js. With echarts-for-react pulling roughly 1.1 million weekly downloads, any project that auto-updates these packages is in scope.
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By Maciej Mensfeld
On May 11, 2026, Mend Defender flagged more than 120 malicious packages newly published to RubyGems — the standard package manager for the Ruby ecosystem. Within 24 hours, that initial cluster expanded into something far larger: tens of thousands of packages pushed by thousands of attacker-controlled accounts, forcing RubyGems to suspend new account registration entirely while the cleanup got underway.
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By Tom Abai
The Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign has resurfaced with its largest wave yet. Over a 48-hour window on May 11-12, 2026, attackers compromised 172 unique packages across 403 malicious versions on npm and PyPI, including high-profile scopes like @tanstack, @uipath, @mistralai, and @opensearch-project.
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By Mend
Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.
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By Mend
Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.
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By Mend
Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.
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By Mend
Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.
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By Mend
Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.
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By Mend
Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.
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By Mend
Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.
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By Mend
Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.
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By Mend
Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.
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By Mend
Developers are often overwhelmed by thousands of container CVE alerts, most of which are unfixable base image noise. This walk-through covers how to use reachable risk factors and Docker VEX statements within the Mend.io platform to streamline your vulnerability management.
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By Mend
Behind every developer is a beloved programming language. In heated debates over which language is the best, the security card will come into play in support of one language or discredit another. We decided to address this debate and put it to the test by researching WhiteSource's comprehensive database. We focused on open source security vulnerabilities in C, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, and C++, to find out which programming languages are most secure, which vulnerability types (CWEs) are most common in each language, and why.
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By Mend
We surveyed over 650 developers, and collected data from the NVD, security advisories, peer-reviewed vulnerability databases, issue trackers and more, to gather the latest industry insights in open source vulnerability management.
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By Mend
Developers across the industry are stepping up to take more responsibility for their code's vulnerability management. In this report we discuss trends in how security is shifting left to the earliest stages of development, putting the power developers in the front seat. We explore the growth of automated tools aimed at helping developers do more with fewer resources and look for answers on what is needed to help close the gap from detection to remediation.
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By Mend
Software development teams are constantly bombarded with an increasingly high number of security alerts. Unfortunately, there is currently no agreed-upon strategy or a straightforward process for vulnerabilities' prioritization. This results in a lot of valuable development time wated on assessing vulnerabilities, while the critical security issues remain unattended.
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No component overlooked. Mend identifies every open source component in your software, including dependencies. It then secures you from vulnerabilities and enforces license policies throughout the software development lifecycle. The result? Faster, smoother development without compromising on security.
Not all vulnerabilities are created equal. Mend prioritizes vulnerabilities based on whether your code utilizes them or not, so you know exactly what needs your attention the most. This reduces security alerts by up to 85%, allowing you to remediate more critical issues faster.
Complete Platform:
- Mend Core: We help you keep things in order. Mend is built to streamline your open source governance. With a full layer of alerting, reporting and policy management, you are effortlessly secure and always in control.
- Mend for Developers: Mend for Developers is uniquely designed to simplify developers’ work, while keeping the code secure. Its suite of tools helps speed up integration, find problematic components, and remediate them quickly and easily.
- Mend for Containers: Mend integrates into all stages of the container development lifecycle, including container registries and Kubernetes with automated policy enforcement for maximum visibility and control.
The simplest way to secure and manage open source components in your software.