Attackers stole a long-lived npm token from the lead axios maintainer and published two poisoned versions that drop a cross-platform RAT. Axios sits in 80% of cloud environments. Huntress confirmed ...
Developers using the axios package from npm may have downloaded a malicous version that drops a Remote Access Trojan ...
IntroductionOn March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally exposed the full source code of Claude Code (its flagship terminal-based AI coding agent) through a 59.8 MB JavaScript source map (.map) file ...
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.
Two CISOs dissect the Axios npm attack, revealing a self-erasing RAT, CI/CD compromise risks and why open-source software ...
Hackers infiltrated Axios maintainers using fake Slack channels and Teams calls, then published infected packages.
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 ...
What makes this attack so unsettling is that all the hackers had to do was just steal the password of one of the axios ...
Source code is no longer the attack surface. The binary is. And most security teams aren’t even looking at it.
A supply-chain attack backdoored versions of Axios, a popular JavaScript library that's present in many different software packages, to distribute a cross-platform, ...
An attacker compromised the npm account of a lead Axios maintainer on March 30, and used it to publish two malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript HTTP client library.