npm postinstall Scripts Can Read Your .env. Most Projects Let Them.
The strapi-plugin-events attack used a postinstall hook to exfiltrate secrets. This vector isn't new. What's new is how often it works.
Practical security insights and product updates from the team building safer, simpler key management for modern APIs.
The strapi-plugin-events attack used a postinstall hook to exfiltrate secrets. This vector isn't new. What's new is how often it works.
Offboarding in Okta stops logins. It leaves GitHub PATs, AWS IAM keys, and OAuth grants running. Here's the exact checklist to kill all of it.
TeamPCP backdoored telnyx 4.87.1 and LiteLLM using the same RSA key infrastructure, targeting environment variables both times. Until you stop storing live credentials in .env, rotation is just cleanup.
Long-lived credentials in `.env` files aren't a best practice; they're a countdown timer. Workload identity gives agents short-lived tokens that expire before they can do damage.