Popular code repository GitHub is taking action against hackers targeting popular JavaScript code packages to spread malware.

GitHub, which owns the npm registry for JavaScript packages, says it is tightening security in response to recent attacks.

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 ...

GitHub enforces FIDO 2FA and seven-day token limits after Shai-Hulud npm attack to boost supply chain security.

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Following major supply chain attacks on NPM packages, security researchers argue for the immediate adoption of ...

In response to the recent supply chain attack in the JavaScript package manager npm, GitHub has made a few changes that will ...

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A new piece of malware is spreading through the popular tinycolor NPM library and more than 300 other packages, some of which ...

Shai-Hulud is the third major supply chain attack targeting the NPM ecosystem after the s1ngularity attack and the recent compromise of Josh Junon (Qix), the maintainer of 18 NPM packages that have ...

Halud, is compromising hundreds of NPM packages, spreading self-replicating malware, exfiltrating data, and turning private ...

An apparent "Dune" aficionado is responsible for the first self-propagating attack on the npm JavaScript repository in what one security company has ...