Slightly uncomfortable truth: most teams still treat dependencies like background noise — until one compromise ruins the week. CISA warned just days ago about the Axios npm supply-chain compromise, and Elastic says backdoored versions were published after an attacker took over a maintainer account.

That means “it’s a popular package” is no longer a security strategy.

If your app depends on npm, your real stack is not just your code. It’s every package you trusted without checking.

Question: has this changed how your team handles dependencies?