The Bitwarden security team identified and contained a malicious package that was briefly distributed through the npm delivery path for @bitwarden/
[email protected] between 5:57 PM and 7:30 PM (ET) on April 22, 2026, in connection with a broader Checkmarx supply chain incident. The investigation found no evidence that end user vault data was accessed or at risk, or that production data or production systems were compromised. Once the issue was detected, compromised access was revoked, the malicious ...
A package manager that uses cryptographic signatures. Apt had this since 2005 iirc. Use apt.
Apt is great, but it does not work with every language. As an example, you cannot use apt with maven (java) AFAIK.
Oh boy. Maven is like the only language dependency manager that does signing tho!
You don’t need to use apt for java. Just use maven :)
Haha! Yeah, I don’t even know where to start if I wanted to use apt for this. I’ll stick with Maven for Java.
if the dev(s) gets compromised there’s the same issue, except with an extra checkmark on it.
Packages are reviewed by package maintainers.
Humans are required to solve a malicious insider. But most supply chain vulns of these shitty software dependency managers were resolved decades ago by freely available cryptography
Human review really should be what’s needed, maybe not even just by the package maintainers.