Most JavaScript developers are familiar with the npm package manager, which was originally developed by Isaac Schlueter. What many probably don’t know is that npm is also a company co-founded by ...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released an alert to provide guidance in response to the ...
The node-ipc developer attempt to protest Russia's attack on Ukraine has the unintended consequence of casting more doubt in software supply chain integrity. The developer of a popular JavaScript ...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has spilt over into developer-space, with a well-known npm maintainer adding "protestware" as a dependency to a very popular package. Security vendor Snyk is tracking what ...
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When a developer 'unpublished' his work from the NPM JavaScript package registry, it broke dependencies for many other projects -- and highlighted the fragility of the open source ecosystem Developers ...
A threat actor has used 36 malicious NPM packages posing as Strapi plugins to distribute malware targeting Redis, Docker, and credentials.
A routine scan of the NPM open source code repository in April turned up several packages using a JavaScript obfuscator to hide their true function. After further investigation, analysts with ...