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GitHub Boosting Security in Response to NPM Supply Chain Attacks

In the light of recent supply chain attacks targeting the NPM ecosystem, GitHub will implement tighter authentication and ...

NPM package caught using QR Code to fetch cookie-stealing malware

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to hide a second-stage payload to steal cookies from a user's web browser. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this ...
InfoWorldOpinion

NPM attacks and the security of software supply chains

Process improvements and a closer look at funding streams will provide far more protection for the open source software we ...
CSO Online

Trust in MCP takes first in-the-wild hit via squatted Postmark connector

In a newly disclosed supply-chain attack, an npm package “postmark-mcp” was weaponized to stealthily exfiltrate emails, ...

Want to try the next Windows 11 version? It’s now available to download

WIndows 11 25H2 is the next major version of Microsoft's operating system. The ISO file for it is now available to everyone ...

GitHub tightens npm security with mandatory 2FA, access tokens

GitHub is introducing a set of defenses against supply-chain attacks on the platform that led to multiple large-scale ...
The Register on MSN

GitHub moves to tighten npm security amid phishing, malware plague

Hundreds of compromised packages pulled as registry shifts to 2FA and trusted publishing GitHub, which owns the npm registry ...

GitHub is finally tightening up security around npm following multiple attacks

Furthermore, GitHub announced it would deprecate legacy classic tokens, as well as time-based one-time password (TOTP) 2FA, ...