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Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel
(arstechnica.com)
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I'm not familiar with npm but why is this always NPM? Is it a specific issue they have?
because it's the biggest. Just like how hackers target windows and not linux (assuming they are targeting users and not servers).
It's a "package manager" that has zero integrity checks built in. Web devs also love it. Nice combination.
Culture problem imo.