North Korean hackers published backdoored versions of the Axios NPM package using a compromised long-lived access token.

Attackers stole a long-lived npm token from the lead axios maintainer and published two poisoned versions that drop a ...

With almost 175,000 npm projects listing the library as a dependency, the attack had a huge cascade effect and shows how ...

'This is unironically a malware nuclear missile.' ...

The full breadth of this incident is still unclear, but given the popularity of the compromised package, we expect it will ...

In 2025, Google fixed a total of eight zero-days exploited in the wild, many of which were discovered and reported by ...

Threat actors hijacked the popular npm package axios to spread RAT malware after compromising an open‑source maintainer’s ...

Axios functions as pre-built software that a developer can easily incorporate into a JavaScript project. However, a hacker ...

Axios is published and maintained on npm, the default package registry for JavaScript and Node.js projects. It is used to ...

Security firm Socket advised developers to check dependencies for affected Axios versions and remove or roll back compromised ...

A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open-source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack ...

A malware campaign uses WhatsApp messages to deliver VBS scripts that initiate a multi-stage infection chain. The attack ...