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by hootz 29 days ago
Interesting. How long does it usually take for an attack to be identified and catalogued at OSV? Should this be used together with minimum release date?
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I don't have the exact number for you, but what I observed was that it took a couple of hours for npm to remove some of the packages this week, even though an advisory was published

+ To be clear, this tool does not solve the problem if you are one of the first people to get infected; it minimizes your chance if you are the N-th person