The Axios Hack: How a single compromised account put millions of developers at risk

What makes this attack so unsettling is that all the hackers had to do was just steal the password of one of the axios maintainers.
Microsoft

Mitigating the Axios npm supply chain compromise

On March 31, 2026, the popular HTTP client Axios experienced a supply chain attack, causing two newly published npm packages ...
Security Boulevard

Axios supply chain attack chops away at npm trust

Developers using the axios package from npm may have downloaded a malicous version that drops a Remote Access Trojan ...

Hackers compromise Axios npm package to drop cross-platform malware

Hackers hijacked the npm account of the Axios package, a JavaScript HTTP client with 100M+ weekly downloads, to deliver ...
The Hacker News

Axios Supply Chain Attack Pushes Cross-Platform RAT via Compromised npm Account

Axios 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 injected malicious plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 after npm compromise on March 31, 2026, deploying ...