Appsec

A maintainer account compromise poisoned keyv, flat-cache, file-entry-cache and the rest of the family, then spread to 868 more packages across 1,381 versions — over 2 billion monthly installs. The releases were signed by GitHub Actions and the provenance checks out. That is the part worth your attention.

Researchers say Kimi K3 agents chained a Redis streams double-free with a RedisBloom heap overflow into working authenticated RCE, with one exploit produced in 27 minutes. Redis shipped seven security releases in response. The claims are self-reported — but the patches are real.

Claude Security is a new beta plugin that scans code changes or entire repos for high-severity vulnerabilities directly in the terminal — reasoning through data flows like a security researcher instead of pattern-matching, with adversarial self-checks to cut false positives. Here's how it works and what it means for AppSec teams.