Three security vendors walked into a bar. One bricked 8.5 million machines. One wiped 200,000 medical devices for Iran. One turned its own vulnerability scanner into a credential stealer. Nobody's laughing. The Trifecta In nine months, the three most trusted categories of security tooling — endpoint protection, device management, and CI/CD scanning — all became the attack vector. July 2024: CrowdStrike Falcon. A faulty channel file update crashed 8.5 million Windows machines

Yesterday someone hijacked the most popular HTTP client in the JavaScript ecosystem and turned it into a cross-platform RAT. We run 18 services on axios. Every single one of them would have pulled the malicious version on a fresh install. A lock file is the only reason I'm writing this post instead of an incident report. What Happened On March 30, 2026, an attacker compromised the npm account of axios maintainer @jasonsaayman — likely by stealing a long-lived npm access token

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