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Backstabber’s Knife Collection

Introduced in Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks19 May 2020 archive 2025-07-28

Backstabber’s Knife Collection is a dataset of 174 malicious software packages that were used in real-world attacks on open source software supply chains, and which were distributed via the popular package repositories npm, PyPI, and RubyGems. Those packages, dating from November 2015 to November 2019, were manually collected and analyzed.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

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