diff --git a/.changeset/ripe-wombats-fly.md b/.changeset/ripe-wombats-fly.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..248fb577
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/ripe-wombats-fly.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@nodesecure/scanner": patch
+---
+
+remove faulty manifestAuthor helper for utils.parseAuthor
diff --git a/workspaces/scanner/src/depWalker.ts b/workspaces/scanner/src/depWalker.ts
index 0632e0ac..3eb8f6d5 100644
--- a/workspaces/scanner/src/depWalker.ts
+++ b/workspaces/scanner/src/depWalker.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { Mutex, MutexRelease } from "@openally/mutex";
 import { scanDirOrArchive, type scanDirOrArchiveOptions } from "@nodesecure/tarball";
 import * as Vulnera from "@nodesecure/vulnera";
 import { npm } from "@nodesecure/tree-walker";
+import { parseAuthor } from "@nodesecure/utils";
 import type { ManifestVersion, PackageJSON } from "@nodesecure/npm-types";
 
 // Import Internal Dependencies
@@ -16,7 +17,6 @@ import {
   getDependenciesWarnings,
   addMissingVersionFlags,
   getUsedDeps,
-  manifestAuthor,
   getManifestLinks
 } from "./utils/index.js";
 import { packageMetadata, manifestMetadata } from "./npmRegistry.js";
@@ -240,12 +240,12 @@ export async function depWalker(
 
       if (isLocalManifest(verDescriptor, manifest, packageName)) {
         Object.assign(dependency.metadata, {
-          author: manifestAuthor(manifest.author),
+          author: parseAuthor(manifest.author),
           homepage: manifest.homepage
         });
 
         Object.assign(verDescriptor, {
-          author: manifestAuthor(manifest.author),
+          author: parseAuthor(manifest.author),
           links: getManifestLinks(manifest),
           repository: manifest.repository
         });
diff --git a/workspaces/scanner/src/utils/index.ts b/workspaces/scanner/src/utils/index.ts
index 3ad7acbc..2710abbb 100644
--- a/workspaces/scanner/src/utils/index.ts
+++ b/workspaces/scanner/src/utils/index.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ export * from "./addMissingVersionFlags.js";
 export * from "./getLinks.js";
 export * from "./urlToString.js";
 export * from "./getUsedDeps.js";
-export * from "./manifestAuthor.js";
 export * from "./isNodesecurePayload.js";
 
 export const NPM_TOKEN = typeof process.env.NODE_SECURE_TOKEN === "string" ?
diff --git a/workspaces/scanner/src/utils/manifestAuthor.ts b/workspaces/scanner/src/utils/manifestAuthor.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d45effb..00000000
--- a/workspaces/scanner/src/utils/manifestAuthor.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-// Import Third-party Dependencies
-import type { Contact } from "@nodesecure/npm-types";
-
-export function manifestAuthor(author: string | Contact | undefined): Contact | null {
-  if (author === void 0) {
-    return null;
-  }
-
-  if (typeof author === "string") {
-    if (author.trim() === "") {
-      return null;
-    }
-
-    const authorRegexp = /^([^<(]+?)?[ \t]*(?:<([^>(]+?)>)?[ \t]*(?:\(([^)]+?)\)|$)/g;
-    const [_, name, email, url] = authorRegexp.exec(author) ?? [];
-
-    return { name, email, url };
-  }
-
-  return author;
-}
diff --git a/workspaces/scanner/test/depWalker.spec.ts b/workspaces/scanner/test/depWalker.spec.ts
index a142afeb..77840b57 100644
--- a/workspaces/scanner/test/depWalker.spec.ts
+++ b/workspaces/scanner/test/depWalker.spec.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import path from "node:path";
 import url from "node:url";
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { test } from "node:test";
+import { test, describe } from "node:test";
 import assert from "node:assert";
 
 // Import Third-party Dependencies
@@ -196,31 +196,39 @@ test("highlight contacts from a remote package", async() => {
   );
 });
 
-test("should parse author, homepage and links for non-npm package", async() => {
-  const result = await cwd(path.join(kFixturePath, "non-npm-package"));
-
-  const dep = result.dependencies["non-npm-package"];
-  const v1 = dep.versions["1.0.0"];
-
-  assert.deepEqual(v1.author, {
-    email: void 0,
-    name: "NodeSecure",
-    url: void 0
-  });
-  assert.deepStrictEqual(v1.links, {
-    npm: null,
-    homepage: "https://nodesecure.com",
-    repository: "https://github.com/NodeSecure/non-npm-package"
-  });
-  assert.deepStrictEqual(v1.repository, {
-    type: "git",
-    url: "https://github.com/NodeSecure/non-npm-package.git"
+describe("scanner.cwd()", () => {
+  test("should parse author, homepage and links for a local package who doesn't exist on the remote registry", async() => {
+    const result = await cwd(path.join(kFixturePath, "non-npm-package"));
+
+    const dep = result.dependencies["non-npm-package"];
+    const v1 = dep.versions["1.0.0"];
+
+    assert.deepEqual(v1.author, {
+      name: "NodeSecure"
+    });
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(v1.links, {
+      npm: null,
+      homepage: "https://nodesecure.com",
+      repository: "https://github.com/NodeSecure/non-npm-package"
+    });
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(v1.repository, {
+      type: "git",
+      url: "https://github.com/NodeSecure/non-npm-package.git"
+    });
+
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(dep.metadata.author, {
+      name: "NodeSecure"
+    });
+    assert.strictEqual(dep.metadata.homepage, "https://nodesecure.com");
   });
 
-  assert.deepStrictEqual(dep.metadata.author, {
-    email: void 0,
-    name: "NodeSecure",
-    url: void 0
+  test("should parse local manifest author field without throwing when attempting to highlight contacts", async() => {
+    const { dependencies } = await cwd(
+      path.join(kFixturePath, "non-valid-authors")
+    );
+    const pkg = dependencies["random-package"];
+
+    assert.strictEqual(pkg.metadata.author, null);
   });
-  assert.strictEqual(dep.metadata.homepage, "https://nodesecure.com");
 });
+
diff --git a/workspaces/scanner/test/fixtures/depWalker/non-valid-authors/package.json b/workspaces/scanner/test/fixtures/depWalker/non-valid-authors/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..38610a3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/workspaces/scanner/test/fixtures/depWalker/non-valid-authors/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "name": "random-package",
+  "type": "module",
+  "author": "John Doe <john.doe@gmail.com>, Alicia B <alicia@gmail.com>"
+}
diff --git a/workspaces/scanner/test/utils/manifestAuthor.spec.ts b/workspaces/scanner/test/utils/manifestAuthor.spec.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index cf4060e7..00000000
--- a/workspaces/scanner/test/utils/manifestAuthor.spec.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-// Import Node.js Dependencies
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { describe, it } from "node:test";
-
-// Import Internal Dependencies
-import * as utils from "../../src/utils/index.js";
-
-describe("utils.manifestAuthor", () => {
-  it("should return null when given undefined", () => {
-    assert.strictEqual(utils.manifestAuthor(undefined), null);
-  });
-
-  it("should return null when given empty string", () => {
-    assert.strictEqual(utils.manifestAuthor(""), null);
-  });
-
-  it("should return author object with only name", () => {
-    assert.deepStrictEqual(utils.manifestAuthor("John Doe"), {
-      name: "John Doe",
-      email: void 0,
-      url: void 0
-    });
-  });
-
-  it("should return author object with name and email", () => {
-    assert.deepStrictEqual(utils.manifestAuthor("John Doe <john@doe.com>"), {
-      name: "John Doe",
-      email: "john@doe.com",
-      url: void 0
-    });
-  });
-
-  it("should return author object with name, email and url", () => {
-    assert.deepStrictEqual(utils.manifestAuthor("John Doe <john@doe.com> (john.com)"), {
-      name: "John Doe",
-      email: "john@doe.com",
-      url: "john.com"
-    });
-  });
-
-  it("should return given author object", () => {
-    const author = {
-      name: "John Doe",
-      email: "john@doe.com",
-      url: "john.com"
-    };
-
-    assert.deepStrictEqual(utils.manifestAuthor(author), author);
-  });
-});