Attackers stole a long-lived npm access token belonging to the lead maintainer of axios, the most popular HTTP client library in JavaScript, and used it to publish two poisoned versions that install a ...
Update March 31, 2026, 1:28 pm UTC: This article has been updated to add comments from Abdelfattah Ibrahim, senior offensive security engineer at Hacken. Two malicious Axios npm releases have prompted ...
Hackers hijacked the npm account of the Axios package, a JavaScript HTTP client with 100M+ weekly downloads, to deliver remote access trojans to Linux, Windows, and macOS systems. One malicious ...
With almost 175,000 npm projects listing the library as a dependency, the attack had a huge cascade effect and shows how quickly a compromised package can propagate through the ecosystem. Attackers ...
The maintainers of the popular Axios HTTP client have published a detailed post-mortem describing how one of its developers was targeted by a social engineering campaign linked to North Korean hackers ...
In the wake of a critical supply chain attack targeting the widely used Axios JavaScript library, like leading analyst from NST Cyber pointed out, Many CXOs community chief information security ...
Security companies flagged axios@1.14.1 and 0.30.4 as compromised, urging credential rotation and rollback of affected packages. Update March 31, 2026, 1:28 pm UTC: This article has been updated to ...