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Are you still running your package pipeline on default settings and grabbing libraries straight from public repos? Big yikes. That’s rolling out the red carpet for dependency confusion attacks to drop shady code into your project. It isn’t uncommon. Nearly half (49%) of organizations are exposed to the risks of a dependency confusion attack because they make the same mistakes. But what exactly is dependency confusion, and how do these attacks manage to infiltrate?

Subdomain takeovers don’t happen because attackers are geniuses. They happen because DNS records get messy. It’s not exactly an exciting gig to track old services or clean up unused subdomains, but ignoring it creates a security hole you can’t afford. Microsoft discovered over 670 vulnerable subdomains in a single audit. On a larger scale, 21% of DNS records out there lead to unresolved content, and 63% of those throw ‘404 not found’ errors.

What’s the difference between an unsupervised toddler with markers and an unsecured CI/CD pipeline? Both look fine at first, but chaos is inevitable. While a toddler might scribble on walls, an unsecured pipeline invites attackers to wreak havoc on your digital assets. Cleaning up after either is tough—prevention is smarter. The CrowdStrike 2024 report reveals that cloud-conscious intrusions skyrocketed by 110% in 2023.

What if your most personal chats, the very foundation of your digital existence, were exposed? Unfortunately, that’s precisely what happened with the Salt Typhoon Hack on July 2024, a terrible cyberattack that put big U.S. telecom companies at risk. The scale of this intrusion has never been seen before. Malicious actors accessed sensitive data such as call logs, metadata, and even interactions with key political officials.