The npm security team has removed today a malicious JavaScript library from the npm website that contained malicious code for opening backdoors on programmers' computers. The JavaScript library was ...

Inside these files—mainly the manifest (package.json) and index.js, there is nothing phenomenally interesting, just skeleton code. The manifest does pull in a bunch of development dependencies ...

A hacker has gained access to a developer's npm account and injected malicious code into a popular JavaScript library, code that was designed to steal the npm credentials of users who utilize the ...

Criminals used a typo-squatting technique and uploaded rogue JavaScript libraries to a popular code repository npm. Hackers seeking developer credentials used typo-squatting to spread malicious code ...

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 ...

A package called “aabquerys” has been spotted on the open-source JavaScript npm repository using typosquatting techniques to enable the download of malicious components. The findings come from ...

A newly discovered malware campaign has leveraged malicious npm packages to deliver highly sophisticated reverse shells. Researchers at ReversingLabs identified two malicious packages, ...

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 ...

A new group of maintainers is proceeding with an ‘official’ version of the Faker JavaScript library after the previous maintainer went rogue. In the wake of a recent incident that wreaked havoc on the ...

A npm package maintainer has fallen victim to a phishing attack The attackers accessed packages and updated them to carry malware Most antivirus programs are still not properly flagging the malicious ...