VentureBeat

Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected

Attackers stole a long-lived npm access token belonging to the lead maintainer of axios, the most popular HTTP client library in JavaScript, and used it to publish two poisoned versions that install a ...
ZDNet

Malicious npm packages caught installing remote access trojans

The security team behind the "npm" repository for JavaScript libraries removed two npm packages this Monday for containing malicious code that installed a remote access trojan (RAT) on the computers ...
techtimes

npm v12 Ships This Month, Blocking Install Scripts That Enabled Year of Supply Chain Attacks

JavaScript engineering teams have a shrinking window to prepare: npm v12, the package manager's most significant security redesign in its 16-year history, is expected to reach final release before the ...
BleepingComputer

GitHub announces npm security changes to tackle supply-chain attacks

GitHub has announced that npm v12, expected next month, will introduce several security-focused changes aimed at blocking supply-chain attacks abusing behaviors triggered by the 'npm install' command.