First, people need to remember that the original attack on tools like ChalkJS was a successful MFA phishing attempt on npm’s ...

Three popular npm packages, @rspack/core, @rspack/cli, and Vant, were compromised through stolen npm account tokens, allowing threat actors to publish malicious versions that installed cryptominers.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A serious security breach has sent shockwaves through both everyday online services and the cryptocurrency world. At the center is ...

Node Package Manager (NPM) is installed on your Windows computer once you install Node.js. It is a package manager for modules of Node.js, and it’s ready to run on your Windows PC. In this article, we ...

Attackers are exploiting a major weakness that has allowed them access to the NPM code repository with more than 100 credential-stealing packages since August, mostly without detection. The finding, ...

Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the NPM ...

Ethereum smart contracts used to hide URL to secondary malware payloads in an attack chain triggered by a malicious GitHub repo. Attackers behind a recent supply chain attack that involved rogue ...

Open source packages published on the npm and PyPI repositories were laced with code that stole wallet credentials from dYdX developers and backend systems and, in some cases, backdoored devices, ...

In a newly discovered supply chain attack, attackers last week targeted a range of npm-hosted JavaScript type testing utilities, several of which were successfully compromised to distribute malware.