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. Was I affected? If you use the Bitwarden command line interface and deploy using NPM, and downloaded the CLI between 5:57p ET and 7:30p ET on April 22, 2026, you may be affected. See remediation steps below. If you do not u...
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.