Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

We’re excited to announce that Snyk has been recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Solutions, Q3 2025. This recognition affirms our place at the forefront of developer-first security — and highlights the innovation, customer impact, and platform breadth that continue to set us apart.

On Monday, September 8th, a highly regarded open source developer, ~qix, was compromised via a phishing email. ~qix is an author and maintainer behind a large number of popular npm packages and found himself caught by this attack after responding to a message from the email address of support help. This resulted in the attacker taking over his npm account and having access to publish malicious versions of packages to which Qix had privileged access.

As the summer winds down and conversation around AI Security heats up, the Snyk team is in full swing planning mode for a double-header this October—with the return of DevSecCon’s Flagship conference, focusing this year on Securing the Shift to AI Native, and serving as the founding partner of the inaugural AI Security Summit.