Aaron Linskens

Aaron is a technical writer on Sonatype's Developer Relations team. He works at a crossroads of technical writing, developer advocacy, software development, and open source. He aims to get developers and non-technical collaborators to work well together via experimentation, feedback, and iteration so they can build the right software.

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This Week in Malware - 135 Packages Target npm and PyPI Registries

By Aaron Linskens on September 30, 2022 vulnerabilities

3 minute read time

This week in malware, we discovered and analyzed 135 packages flagged as malicious, suspicious, or dependency confusion attacks in npm and PyPI registries.
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This Week in Malware - Over Five Dozen More Packages Discovered

By Aaron Linskens on September 23, 2022 vulnerabilities

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This week in malware we discovered and analyzed over five dozen packages flagged as malicious, suspicious, or dependency confusion attacks.
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This Week in Malware - Almost 100 Packages

By Aaron Linskens on September 16, 2022 vulnerabilities

2 minute read time

This week in malware Sonatype discovered and analyzed over seven dozen packages flagged as malicious, suspicious, or dependency confusion attacks.
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Rule Over Your Dependencies and Scan at Your Own Open Source Risk

By Aaron Linskens on September 13, 2022 vulnerabilities

5 minute read time

A good way to make sure that your organization's vulnerabilities don't go unnoticed is conducting regular scans of open source used in your environments.
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This Week in Malware - A PyPI Phishing Follow-up Plus 120 Packages

By Aaron Linskens on September 02, 2022 vulnerabilities

4 minute read time

This week Sonatype discovered and analyzed 120 packages flagged as malicious, suspicious, or dependency confusion attacks.
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This Week in Malware - 450 Packages and a Phishing Campaign Against PyPI Maintainers

By Aaron Linskens on August 26, 2022 vulnerabilities

6 minute read time

This week Sonatype discovered and analyzed 450 packages flagged as malicious, suspicious, or dependency confusion attacks.
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This Week in Malware - Fileless Linux Cryptominer, 100 Packages

By Aaron Linskens on August 12, 2022 vulnerabilities

6 minute read time

This week Sonatype discovered more than 100 open source packages that were malicious, suspicious, or dependency confusion attacks.
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