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 ...
It's unclear how widespread the damage is from the recent axios hack involving North Korean malware, Microsoft Teams, Slack, ...
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.
Hackers linked to North Korea compromised the widely used Axios npm package by tricking a maintainer into installing malware ...