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> Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines

[SOURCE] The Register Security [AUTHOR: Carly Page] [DATE: 31/03/2026 10:29] [LANGUAGE: EN]
Hijacked maintainer account let attackers slip cross-platform trojan into 100M-downloads-a-week Axios One of npm's most widely used HTTP client libraries briefly became a malware delivery vehicle after attackers hijacked a maintainer's account and slipped a remote-access trojan (RAT) into two seemingly legitimate axios releases, in what's being described as "one of the most impactful npm supply chain attacks on record."…
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