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Hosted by Mackenzie Jackson · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 14 episodes
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Welcome to Bad Dependencies, the podcast where the digital supply chain gets audited in real-time. Hosted by security researchers Charlie Erikson and Mackenzie Jackson from Aikido Security, this bi-weekly show dives deep into the wildest, weirdest, and most dangerous malware found lurking in package registries like NPM and PyPI. From image-based payloads to AI-generated code noise, nothing is off-limits as Charlie and Mackenzie explore the bleeding edge of software supply chain attacks. Whether you’re a developer, security enthusiast, or just malware-curious, Bad Dependencies will open your ey
Mackenzie Jackson hosts Bad Dependencies Podcast, a technology show with 14 episodes published.
In this episode of Bad Dependencies, we analyze the reported leak of GitHub's source code and the sale of thousands of its repositories. We map out the chain of events leading up to the incident, including recent comprom
In this episode of Bad Dependencies, we dive into the "wormy" chaos of the latest supply chain attack hitting the JavaScript ecosystem. Join researcher Charlie Eriksen as he breaks down how the threat actor group TeamPCP
In this episode of Bad Dependencies, Mackenzie and security researcher Charlie Erickson break down a fast-moving software supply chain attack led by Team PCP.Starting with the compromise of Trivy, the attackers leveraged
In this episode, I sit down with Charlie Eriksen, the researcher who uncovered the Shai Hulud 2.0 campaign, for a deep dive into one of the wildest supply-chain attacks we’ve seen. What began as a strange detection quick
In this episode of Bad Dependencies, Mackenzie Jackson and Charlie Eriksen dive into one of the most sophisticated malware incidents to target developers — the OpenVSX compromise. They unpack how attackers hid malicious
In this episode, host Mackenzie Jackson is joined by Charlie Erikson and Daniel Pereira to uncover the story of Shai-Hulud — a self-propagating worm that shook the NPM ecosystem. Like the great sandworm of Arrakis, it su
Charlie Eriksen and I sat down for a candid chat with Josh Junon, the maintainer of chalk and debug, who found himself at the center of one of the largest npm supply-chain attacks.Josh talks openly about: ✅ How the phish
Charlie Erkson and Mackenzie Jackson return with breaking news on one of the wildest supply chain compromises to date. The popular NX packages—with millions of weekly downloads—were hijacked, and attackers used an LLM-po
In this Episode Mackenzie and Charlie sit down to discuss exactly what is going on with all the Phishing campaigns against NPM maintainers, what was compromised, and what you can do about it. We also discuss the weird re
In this episode of Bad Dependencies, we explore the gray zone of offensive security with researcher Raphael Silva from Checkmarx. Hosts Mackenzie and Charlie break down June’s 4,000+ flagged malicious packages, then chat
In this explosive episode of Bad Dependencies, Mackenzie Jackson and Charlie Eriksen uncover a sophisticated malware campaign that compromised 16 popular npm packages—including libraries under the "react-native-aria" sco
In the debut episode of Bad Dependencies, Charlie and Mackenzie unpack some seriously strange cases of malware hidden in plain sight on NPM. They explore how malicious actors are stuffing payloads into image files like J
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