06/04/2026
🚨 Something wild happened last week that nobody is talking about enough.
Axios — a JavaScript library that 70 million developers download every single week — got hijacked. A North Korean hacking group slipped malicious code into a routine update. If your project auto-updated (and most do), you just installed a backdoor on your machine. 😳
💻 Windows. Mac. Linux. All targeted.
And just days before that, another popular AI library called LiteLLM was compromised on Python's package manager. Stealing credentials. Exfiltrating secrets. 🔓
Two major supply chain attacks in one month. ⚠️
Here's what keeps me up at night 😰: we now have more AI tools, plugins, and extensions available than ever before. But almost none of them go through any meaningful security review before they end up in your workflow.
It's like downloading random apps from the internet in 2005 — before app stores existed to protect us. 📱
The AI ecosystem desperately needs a trust layer. Someone has to scan these tools, verify them, and make it easy to know what's safe and what's not. 🛡️✅
Because right now, "available" and "trustworthy" are two very different things. And the gap is getting bigger. 📉
What do you think — should there be a verified marketplace for AI tools, the way we have app stores for phones? checkout this 👇💬
Skillsauth.com