The popular fast-glob utility used by the Pentagon is serviced by a specialist from the Moscow region
28 August 12:39
The popular fast-glob utility used by the Pentagon is serviced by a specialist from the Moscow region
12:39; 28 August 2025 year
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gt;Maintenance of the most popular Node.fast-glob js utilities have been outsourced to a specialist from the Russian Federation. To this "Typical sysadmin"lt;/a>.
According to a study by an expert group, the work of the most popular package with deep access to the file system, which is part of the critical infrastructure of the United States, is supported by a developer from Yandex, a certain Denis Malinochkin, who lives in the Moscow region, without any external control. The authors of the article note that the failure of utility maintenance is a typical story for open source. But the caveat is that fast-glob is not only a dependency in more than 5,000 public projects, but is also used in at least 30 projects of the US Department of Defense, and is also included in Iron Bank, a trusted software repository used by the Pentagon for its systems.Hunted Labs specialists have already informed the Pentagon about their "discovery."
