From DEF CON Research to Automated Supply Chain Defense, finding npx confusion vulnerabilities with npxconfuse
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Summary
The npxconfuse scanner automates detection of npx confusion and scoped binary name mismatches, finding unclaimed npm package names in codebases and GitHub orgs, including a Brave MCP server zero-day.
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--- id: 7281 title: "From DEF CON Research to Automated Supply Chain Defense, finding npx confusion vulnerabilities with npxconfuse" source_domain: lab.ctbb.show source_url: "https://lab.ctbb.show/research/from-defcon-research-to-automated-supply-chain-defense-with-npxconfuse" published_at: "2026-08-11T00:00:00Z" tags: ["rce", "supply-chain", "zero-day", "open-source", "mcp", "npm", "npx", "dependency-confusion"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/7281" lang: en --- # From DEF CON Research to Automated Supply Chain Defense, finding npx confusion vulnerabilities with npxconfuse ## Summary The npxconfuse scanner automates detection of npx confusion and scoped binary name mismatches, finding unclaimed npm package names in codebases and GitHub orgs, including a Brave MCP server zero-day. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** lab.ctbb.show - **Published:** 2026-08-11T00:00:00Z - **Original:** https://lab.ctbb.show/research/from-defcon-research-to-automated-supply-chain-defense-with-npxconfuse - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/7281