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70 Hackers Hijack npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads in Supply Chain Attack

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msmash @ Slashdot · today 15:25 EDT

Hackers Hijack npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads in Supply Chain Attack

An anonymous reader shares a report: In what is being called the largest supply chain attack in history, attackers have injected malware into NPM packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads after compromising a maintainer's account in a phishing attack.

The package maintainer whose accounts were hijacked in this supply-chain attack confirmed the incident earlier today, stating that he was aware of the compromise and adding that the phishing email came from support [at] npmjs [dot] help, a domain that.

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