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Attackers trojanize Axios HTTP library in highest-impact npm supply chain attack

With almost 175,000 npm projects listing the library as a dependency, the attack had a huge cascade effect and shows how ...

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 ...
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North Korean hackers implicated in major supply chain attack

Suspected North Korean hackers are believed to be behind an ongoing compromise of the widely used open-source package Axios, ...

Google explains how crawling works in 2026

Limits. Recently, Google spoke about its crawling limits. Now, Gary Illyes dug into it more. He said: Googlebot currently ...

Google Explains Googlebot Byte Limits And Crawling Architecture

Google's Gary Illyes published a blog post explaining how Googlebot works as one client of a centralized crawling platform, ...

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 ...
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Critical compromise: Axios NPM library with 100M weekly downloads is delivering malware

A critical supply chain attack has compromised the popular JavaScript library axios, leading to developers unknowingly ...