Hackers compromise Axios npm package to drop cross-platform malware

Hackers hijacked the npm account of the Axios package, a JavaScript HTTP client with 100M+ weekly downloads, to deliver ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: The Supply Chain Has Problems

The biggest story of the week is a new massive supply chain breach, which appears to be unrelated to the previous massive supply chain breaches, this time of the Axios HTTP project. Axios was ...
SecurityWeek

React2Shell Exploited in Large-Scale Credential Harvesting Campaign

The UAT-10608 hacking group is using automated scanning and scripts to exploit React2Shell in a large-scale credential ...
SecurityWeek

Critical Vulnerability in Claude Code Emerges Days After Source Leak

Within days of each other, Anthropic first leaked the source code to Claude Code, and then a critical vulnerability was found ...
Microsoft

Mitigating the Axios npm supply chain compromise

On March 31, 2026, the popular HTTP client Axios experienced a supply chain attack, causing two newly published npm packages ...
The Hacker News

Axios Supply Chain Attack Pushes Cross-Platform RAT via Compromised npm Account

Axios 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 injected malicious plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 after npm compromise on March 31, 2026, deploying ...
Analytics Insight

Axios Supply Chain Attack Exposes Crypto Wallets to Hidden Malware Risk

Axios, a widely used JavaScript HTTP client, was briefly distributed through npm in two malicious versions after a maintainer ...

Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected

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

Backdooring of JavaScript Library Axios Tied to North Korea

A supply-chain attack backdoored versions of Axios, a popular JavaScript library that's present in many different software ...
The Hacker News

Google Attributes Axios npm Supply Chain Attack to North Korean Group UNC1069

Google links Axios npm supply chain attack to UNC1069 after trojanized versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 spread WAVESHAPER.V2, ...
Security Boulevard

Frequently Asked Questions About the Axios npm Supply Chain Attack by North Korea-Nexus Threat Actor UNC1069

A North Korea-nexus threat actor compromised the widely used axios npm package, delivering a cross-platform remote access ...
Security Boulevard

LeakNet Changes Tactics, But Consistency Gives Defenders an Advantage

LeakNet may be expanding its reach and scaling up, changing techniques and running campaigns directly, but the ransomware operator’s use of a repeatable post-exploitation sequence gives defenders a ...