What Happened in the Shai Hulud JavaScript Attack? A major JavaScript supply-chain attack has compromised more than 400 NPM packages — including at least 10 widely used across the crypto ecosystem — ...

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a large-scale spam campaign that has flooded the npm registry with thousands of fake packages since early 2024 as part of a likely financially ...

Ten malicious packages mimicking legitimate software projects in the npm registry download an information-stealing component that collects sensitive data from Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. The ...

Shai-Hulud is the worst-ever npm JavaScript attack. This software supply chain worm attack is still ongoing. Here are some ways you can prevent such attacks. For those of you who aren't Dune fans, ...

An apparent "Dune" aficionado is responsible for perpetrating the first self-propagating attack on the npm JavaScript repository in what a security company has described as being one of the most ...

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on ...

What the Script: Supply chain attacks are traditionally designed to inflict maximum damage on structured organizations or companies. However, when such an attack compromises a supply chain that an ...

The supply chain attack through npm packages stole just $497 within the first hours, reaching only obscure meme tokens. The attack mostly affected MetaMask users, relying on luck to drain a larger ...

18 popular NPM packages with over 2 billion weekly downloads were compromised through a phishing attack targeting developer “Qix” The malware functioned as a “crypto-clipper,” silently replacing ...

NPM developer qix's account compromise potentially puts user funds at risk by compromising library dependencies used by bitcoin wallets. A major NPM developer, qix, has had their account compromised.

The breach hit core JavaScript libraries such as chalk and strip-ansi, downloaded billions of times each week, raising alarms over the security of open-source software. Hackers have compromised widely ...