"People downloading open source packages should take extra care in making sure the item they’re downloading is legitimate and not malware masquerading as something legitimate." Click to expand ...
Hackers behind the Shai Hulud malicious npm JavaScript campaign are likely testing a new variant of the malware. Security ...
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 ...
JavaScript developers will never learn. left-pad happened nine years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident), and should have woken up anyone who ...
Four packages containing highly obfuscated malicious Python and JavaScript code were discovered this week in the Node Package Manager (npm) repository. According to a report from Kaspersky, the ...
A large-scale, automated typosquatting attack saw 200+ malicious packages flood the npm code repository, targeting popular Azure scopes. Researchers have found hundreds of malicious packages in the ...
Security researchers from Reversing Labs find two malicious packages on npm These serve as downloaders and target software developers building on the Ethereum blockchain The malware opens a reverse ...
In another vast software supply-chain attack, the password-stealer is filching credentials from Chrome on Windows systems via ChromePass. A credentials-stealing code bomb that uses legitimate password ...
The team behind npm, the biggest package manager for JavaScript libraries, has issued a security alert yesterday, advising all users to update to the latest version (6.13.4) to prevent "binary ...
A malicious package was removed today from the npm repository after it was discovered that it stole login information from the computers it was installed on. The npm repository is a popular online ...