A new campaign involving 19 malicious Visual Studio Code extensions used a legitimate npm package to embed malware in ...

The lurking code-bombs lift Discord tokens from users of any applications that pulled the packages into their code bases. A series of malicious packages in the Node.js package manager (npm) code ...

Microsoft previews a GitHub Copilot-powered VS Code Insiders tool that modernizes JavaScript/TypeScript apps by upgrading npm ...

Two code packages named "nodejs-encrypt-agent" in the popular npm JavaScript library and registry recently were discovered containing the open source information-stealing TurkoRat malware. Researchers ...

Regtech firm SlowMist noted that recently, the NPM ecosystem experienced another large-scale package poisoning incident.

At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious software today, after a developer involved ...

GitHub security team has identified several high-severity vulnerabilities in npm packages, "tar" and "@npmcli/arborist," used by npm CLI. The tar package receives 20 million weekly downloads on ...

Attackers are exploiting a major weakness that has allowed them access to the NPM code repository with more than 100 credential-stealing packages since August, mostly without detection. The finding, ...

Popular npm library 'coa' was hijacked today with malicious code injected into it, ephemerally impacting React pipelines around the world. The 'coa' library, short for Command-Option-Argument, ...

The NPM JavaScript registry has experienced a jump in malware, including packages related to data theft, crypto mining, botnets, and remote code execution, according to security company WhiteSource.

The latest version also executes malicious code during the preinstall phase, and is bigger and faster than the first wave, say researchers. A new version of the Shai-Hulud credentials-stealing ...

Researchers have found another 17 malicious packages in an open source repository, as the use of such repositories to spread malware continues to flourish. This time, the malicious code was found in ...