GovInfoSecurity

Backdooring of JavaScript Library Axios Tied to North Korea

A supply-chain attack backdoored versions of Axios, a popular JavaScript library that's present in many different software ...

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 ...

20 People to Know in Events: Jazmin Kidd

Jazmin Kidd, of Jazz It Up/Glow Script Marquee, is among our 20 People to Know in Events honorees for 2026. © 2026 American ...
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 ...

Fake VS Code alerts on GitHub spread malware to developers

A large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the ...
Windows Report

Axios Hack Bypasses GitHub Protections and Installs Hidden Malware on Systems

The popular JavaScript HTTP client Axios has been compromised in a supply chain attack, exposing projects to malware through ...

Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected

Attackers stole a long-lived npm token from the lead axios maintainer and published two poisoned versions that drop a ...

Hackers compromise popular Axios Javascript library with hidden malware

The widely used Axios HTTP client library, a JavaScript component used by developers, was recently hacked to distribute ...
Analytics Insight

Axios Supply Chain Attack Exposes Crypto Wallets to Hidden Malware Risk

Axios, a widely used JavaScript HTTP client, was briefly distributed through npm in two malicious versions after a maintainer ...

Developer rebuilds Doom using only CSS and HTML, turning divs into a full 3D game engine

Leenheer is best known for creating HTML5test.com, the WhichBrowser user-agent parser. He began exploring a CSS-based Doom ...
Dark Reading

Axios NPM Package Compromised in Precision Attack

The NPM package for Axios, a popular JavaScript HTTP client library, was briefly compromised this week, possibly by North ...

A popular coding tool was hijacked to deliver malware.

A hacker took over an account belonging to the lead maintainer of the JavaScript library, Axios, which is used to handle HTTP requests, as reported by Cybernews. Security researchers found that ...