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Maintainer & Account Takeover

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The most dangerous supply-chain attacks don't use a fake package, they use a real one. If an attacker can take over the account that publishes a popular library, they can ship malware to everyone who updates, with full trust already established.

How accounts get taken over

Why it's so effective

Signals that catch it

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