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Security teams are grappling with a major supply chain attack on Axios, a popular JavaScript library with over 100 million weekly downloads. The North Korean state actor Sapphire Sleet compromised the ...

The widely used Axios HTTP client library, a JavaScript component used by developers, was recently hacked to distribute malware via a compromised account. Attackers exploited a hijacked account on npm ...

“The full breadth of this incident is still unclear, but given the popularity of the compromised package, we expect it will have far reaching impacts,” a chief Google analyst said. North Korea-aligned ...

This story contains AI-generated text. The author has used AI either for research, to generate outlines, or write the text itself. While learning data science with Python, one library impressed me ...

Announced January 17, the newest version of the jQuery JavaScript library can be downloaded from jquery.com. Trusted types in jQuery 4.0.0 ensure that HTML in the TrustedHTML interface can be input to ...

Critical React Server Components flaw enables remote code execution, prompting urgent crypto industry warnings as attackers exploit CVE-2025-55182 to drain wallets and deploy malware across vulnerable ...

A critical vulnerability in the popular expr-eval JavaScript library, with over 800,000 weekly downloads on NPM, can be exploited to execute code remotely through maliciously crafted input. The ...

NPM developer qix's account compromise potentially puts user funds at risk by compromising library dependencies used by bitcoin wallets. A major NPM developer, qix, has had their account compromised.

React conquered XSS? Think again. That's the reality facing JavaScript developers in 2025, where attackers have quietly evolved their injection techniques to exploit everything from prototype ...

Choosing between intrusive logging and leaving users in the dark is a classic dilemma for JavaScript developers. Do you burden your users with unnecessary dependencies for debugging, or do you forgo ...