Windows Report

Axios Hack Bypasses GitHub Protections and Installs Hidden Malware on Systems

The popular JavaScript HTTP client Axios has been compromised in a supply chain attack, exposing projects to malware through ...
Cybernews

Critical compromise: Axios NPM library with 100M weekly downloads is delivering malware

A critical supply chain attack has compromised the popular JavaScript library axios, leading to developers unknowingly ...
Bleeping Computer

Botched npm Update Crashes Linux Systems, Forces Users to Reinstall

A bug in npm (Node Package Manager), the most widely used JavaScript package manager, will change ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as /etc, /usr, /boot. Changing ownership of these ...

Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines

Updated: Hijacked maintainer account let attackers slip cross-platform trojan into 100M-downloads-a-week Axios ...
Bleeping Computer

New Python tool checks NPM packages for manifest confusion issues

A security researcher and system administrator has developed a tool that can help users check for manifest mismatches in packages from the NPM JavaScript software registry. Last week, a former ...