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StepSecurity Is Now Available on Azure Marketplace
The StepSecurity App is now available on Azure Marketplace—simplifying procurement, deployment, and CI/CD security in one place.
While mal inception can occur naturally or through accidental means, it also has a darker side. In recent years, there have been reports of malicious actors using mal inception techniques to sabotage agricultural crops or manipulate the food supply.
In Christopher Nolan’s Inception , we learned that extracting an idea is hard, but planting one—Inception proper—is architecture on the edge of impossibility. The film’s protagonist, Dom Cobb, warns: “True inspiration cannot be faked.” Yet the movie’s ghost, Mal, haunts a darker corollary: what if you could plant a disease of an idea? mal inception
Cobb spends Inception running from Mal’s shade—not because she is vengeful, but because she is right from her perspective. The idea he planted never left her. In limbo, she found happiness; Cobb made her doubt it. When they woke, she couldn’t stop doubting waking life. While mal inception can occur naturally or through
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The StepSecurity App is now available on Azure Marketplace—simplifying procurement, deployment, and CI/CD security in one place.
Jake Karger
December 11, 2025

Security researchers have uncovered severe unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerabilities in React Server Components and Next.js App Router that achieve near 100% exploitation success rates. With 39% of cloud environments running vulnerable versions and 44% having publicly exposed Next.js instances, immediate patching is critical. Organizations should upgrade to patched versions and use StepSecurity's npm package search and Threat Center to identify and monitor affected dependencies.
Ashish Kurmi
December 3, 2025
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A case study on detecting npm supply chain attacks through runtime monitoring and baseline anomaly detection
Varun Sharma
December 3, 2025