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Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel (arstechnica.com)

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[-] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago

I've heard quite a few PyPi and Cargo attacks though, but I bet the main reason why hear NPM so much is simply because NPM is the biggest, and thus the most valuable target

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