Insights and Resources

Recent NPM Malware

NPM, JavaScript’s most popular package manager, has seen a rash of malware incidents over the last year. This culminated in major community-impacting breaches in the last few weeks. Let’s dig into these events and

Phylum Research Team Nov 16, 2021 8 min read

Subscribe to our research

Keep up with the latest software supply chain attacks

What Happens to Author Reputation When Malicious Packages are Taken Offline?

Overview There has been an unprecedented rise in malware identified throughout the open-source ecosystem. Over the last several months alone, thousands of bad packages have...

Phylum Research Team Oct 18, 2021 2 min read

Spark and Rust - How to Build Fast, Distributed and Flexible Analytics Pipelines with Side Effects

Apache Spark is a powerful piece of software that has enabled Phylum to build and run complex analytics and models over a big data lake...

Phylum Research Team Oct 7, 2021 6 min read

Vulnerability Reporting Has Fallen Behind

There has been an explosion in new software over the past 3-10 years. The amount of new software released and the number of new software...

Phylum Research Team Sep 28, 2021 4 min read

What Is "Abandonware" and Is It a Security Risk?

The open-source ecosystem is vast and replete with projects at all stages of development. There are nascent projects that are just getting started and toy...

Phylum Research Team Sep 9, 2021 3 min read