A bug in npm (Node Package Manager), the most widely used JavaScript package manager, will change ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as /etc, /usr, /boot. Changing ownership of these ...

Inside these files—mainly the manifest (package.json) and index.js, there is nothing phenomenally interesting, just skeleton code. The manifest does pull in a bunch of development dependencies ...

A new supply-chain attack compromised at least 187 npm packages, targeting developer secrets across software projects Shai-Hulud worm looks to steal credentials, modify packages, and spread malware ...

The popular npm package "is" was infected with cross-platform malware, around the same time that linting utility packages used with the prettier code formatter were infected with Windows-only malware.

17 NPM packages with more than a million weekly downloads were compromised to deliver a RAT The attack could turn into a major supply chain attack, experts warned The packages were since deprecated, ...