A Python package on PyPI called elementary-data, with over 1 million downloads per month, has suffered a supply chain security attack sourced through a GitHub Actions attack vector. TL;DR AdvisorySNYK-PYTHON-ELEMENTARYDATA-16316110 SeverityC...
Anthropic just open-sourced vulnerability discovery at scale. Now what? A few weeks ago, Anthropic launched Glasswing, a $100 million initiative to use AI to identify vulnerabilities at scale. Around the same time, they introduced Claude Mythos, a sy...
In November, we shared our vision for the Future of Snyk Container, outlining a fundamental shift in how teams secure the modern container lifecycle. We promised a future where security doesn’t just “scan” but scales effortlessly with the speed of th...
On March 31, 2026, two malicious versions of axios, the enormously popular JavaScript HTTP client with over 100 million weekly downloads, were briefly published to npm via a compromised maintainer account. The packages contained a hidden dependency t...
This is the prompt – the whole thing: You are a security reviewer for pull requests. Goal: Detect and clearly explain real vulnerabilities introduced or exposed by this PR. Review only added or modified code unless unchanged code is required to prove...
AI coding assistants are quietly resurrecting millions of abandoned open source packages. For the last decade, developers relied on a simple heuristic for open source security: Prevalence \= Trust. If a package was downloaded millions of times a week...
AI coding assistants are quietly resurrecting millions of abandoned open source packages. For the last decade, developers relied on a simple heuristic for open source security: Prevalence \= Trust. If a package was downloaded millions of times a week...
We are witnessing the birth of a new profession in the blend of security engineering and security operations, a discipline that didn't exist five years ago because the systems it protects didn't exist five years ago. As artificial intelligence moves ...
Python powers today’s AI revolution, from machine learning frameworks to agentic workflows and data science pipelines. But for years, Python’s packaging ecosystem has lagged behind developer expectations: slow installs, painful dependency resolution,...
