InfoWorld

Your npm install was safe. What happens when the package runs?

Blocking install scripts closes one route for malicious npm packages. The malicious indexed-btree package shows why ...

Malicious Skills with 1.7 Million Installs—The npm Hell Has Come to AI Agents

A very significant change is occurring in the world of AI Agents.Until now, when people heard the word "Skill," many likely ...
HackerNoon

How I Upgraded My Next.js Portfolio Without Breaking It (the Second Time)

I ran npm audit fix --force on my 2023 portfolio and it broke everything. Here's every error I hit upgrading to Next.js 16 ...
HackerNoon

Bloom Security Found a Supply-Chain Vulnerability Exposing 1,500 npm Packages to Malicious Takeover

Bloom Security uncovered a flaw in npm Trusted Publishing that exposed 1,500+ packages to potential malicious takeovers via ...
BleepingComputer

Malicious npm packages evade install-script defenses at runtime

An ongoing npm malware campaign involving the 'indexed-btree' package shows how threat actors bypass supply chain defenses by hiding malicious code in a package's normal runtime behavior rather than ...
Ars Technica

Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel

Official Red Hat NPM accounts have been compromised and used to push a malicious worm that spreads from machine to machine, where it pilfers sensitive credentials in hopes of stealing yet more ...
InfoWorld

Inside NPM: Building and sharing JavaScript packages

The Node Package Manager, NPM, has become a powerful and important tool, supporting many different JavaScript frameworks — including JQuery, AngularJS, and React JS. If you’re building JavaScript ...