Supply‑Chain Siege: Fake NPM Packages + the New AI Threat Landscape

### 🔢 Episode Information

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| **Title** | Supply‑Chain Siege: Fake NPM Packages + the New AI Threat Landscape |

| **Episode Number** | 3x31 |

| **Hosts** | Professor CyberRisk & Cyber Cowboy |

| **Guests** | None this episode |

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### 👀 Overview

Attackers keep evolving their tactics, and defenders can stay one step ahead by tightening supply‑chain hygiene. In this episode we dive into:

1️⃣ The latest npm registry breach – 46,000 counterfeit packages flooding the ecosystem.

2️⃣ Four support stories that show how policy, data protection, visibility, and AI infrastructure are all part of the same threat matrix.

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### 🗣️ Topics Covered

- **npm Supply‑Chain Attack** – How a worm‑like spam operation can compromise millions of projects.

- **Policy & Vendor Risk** – EU’s ban on Huawei/ZTE as a real‑world example of hardware risk management.

- **Data Resilience** – IBM Safeguarded Copy and immutable snapshots for ransomware protection.

- **Visibility & Detection** – ThreatBook NDR’s top marks in Gartner Peer Insights™ 2025.

- **AI Infrastructure Hardening** – Microsoft’s Atlanta AI “Super Factory” and what it means for zero‑trust architecture.

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| Title | URL |

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| **Bitdefender Threat Map** | https://threatmap.bitdefender.com/ |

| **Checkpoint Live Cyber Threat Map** | https://threatmap.checkpoint.com/ |

| **Kaspersky Cyber Threat Map** | https://cybermap.kaspersky.com/ |

| **Talos Intelligence – ebc_spam Map** | https://talosintelligence.com/ebc_spam |

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### 📚 Resources & Links

- **npm audit guide:** https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/npm-audit

- **Snyk dependency‑monitoring:** https://snyk.io/

- **IBM Safeguarded Copy whitepaper** – (link provided in episode)

- **ThreatBook NDR product page** – https://threatbook.ai/nrd

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