When Dependencies Turn Dangerous: Responding to the NPM Supply Chain Attack

On September 8, 2025, attackers compromised a set of 18 widely used npm packages —including chalk, debug, ansi-styles, and strip-ansi—collectively downloaded over 2.6 billion times per week. Through a targeted phishing campaign against a maintainer, the attackers published malicious versions...

20 Popular npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads Compromised in Supply Chain Attack

Multiple npm packages have been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack after a maintainer's account was compromised in a phishing attack. The attack targeted Josh Junon aka Qix, who received an email message that mimicked npm "[email protected]", urging them to update their update...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview color-string is a Parser and generator for CSS color strings Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code. This package version contains malicious code that monitors network traffic when run in a browser and targets crypto transactions. The injected malicio...