NPM package ‘is’ with 2.8M weekly downloads infected devs with malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago

holy crap:

On July 19, 2025, the package's primary maintainer, John Harband, announced that versions 3.3.1 through 5.0.0 contained malware and were removed roughly 6 hours after threat actors submitted them to npm.

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

So, is that just a 'developer' component, or have I got to analyse all my systems now for the NPM components in the article's list?

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