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npm debug and chalk packages compromised

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A post on aikido.dev is cited by 19 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 12 October 2026).

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19blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time1921
Last 90 days11
Last 30 days11
Last 7 days11
Figures for this page
First cited8 Sept 2025
Latest citation9 Oct 2026
Words blogs link it with5
Linked with its own title3 of 19 blogs
External links4
Length11,258
New citing blogs a weeksince Sept 2025
New citing blogs a week, since Sept 2025: 58 weeks, peak 9 a week, latest week 0

0 this week (still settling) · peak 9

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Shape: spike. Half of its 19 citing blogs had cited it after 12 days; 5% first cited it more than a year on.

Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

Cited by 19 blogs across 2 subjects: technology 11, design and making 1, unclassified 7.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • npm debug and chalk packages compromised3 blogs
  • 18 popular javascript packages were maliciously updated1 blog
  • according to security researchers at aikido1 blog
  • aikido security: qix / core package analysis1 blog
  • blog post1 blog

Cited by 19 blogs in 21 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
I don't install anything younger than a week

linked as “published malicious versions of eighteen packages”

Read at michelebologna.net (opens in a new tab)
9 Oct 2026
14 Oct 2025
A recent phishing attack on GitHub

linked as “18 popular JavaScript packages were maliciously updated”

Read at digitalseams.com (opens in a new tab)
5 Oct 2025
Akvorado 2.0

linked as “one affecting the popular packages chalk and debug”

Read at vincent.bernat.ch (opens in a new tab)
22 Sept 2025
Summer 2025 in review

linked as “npm debug and chalk packages compromised”

Read at fuzzygrim.com (opens in a new tab)
21 Sept 2025
1 other post
Critical npm supply chain attack response – September 8, 2025

linked as “supply chain attack compromised 18 popular npm packages”

Read at vercel.com (opens in a new tab)
8 Sept 2025
tane.dev1 post
Oh no, not again... a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks

linked as “several depedencies that are used daily by thousands of developers”

Read at tane.dev (opens in a new tab)
9 Sept 2025
9 Sept 2025
Xe Iaso1 post
We all dodged a bullet

linked as “one of the biggest package ecosystems had very popular packages get compromised”

Read at xeiaso.net (opens in a new tab)
9 Sept 2025

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