Hacker hijacks Axios open-source project, used by millions, to push malware

A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open-source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack ...
Nextgov

North Korea-linked hackers suspected in Axios open-source hijack, Google analysts say

The full breadth of this incident is still unclear, but given the popularity of the compromised package, we expect it will ...
Cybernews

Critical compromise: Axios NPM library with 100M weekly downloads is delivering malware

A critical supply chain attack has compromised the popular JavaScript library axios, leading to developers unknowingly ...

Hackers compromise Axios npm package to drop cross-platform malware

Hackers hijacked the npm account of the Axios package, a JavaScript HTTP client with 100M+ weekly downloads, to deliver ...
Axios on MSN

North Korean hackers implicated in major supply chain attack

Suspected North Korean hackers are believed to be behind an ongoing compromise of the widely used open-source package Axios, ...
The Hacker News

Axios Supply Chain Attack Pushes Cross-Platform RAT via Compromised npm Account

Axios 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 injected malicious plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 after npm compromise on March 31, 2026, deploying ...
CSO Online

Attackers trojanize Axios HTTP library in highest-impact npm supply chain attack

With almost 175,000 npm projects listing the library as a dependency, the attack had a huge cascade effect and shows how ...
Techzine Europe

Axios npm package compromised, posing a new supply chain threat

Two versions of the widely used JavaScript library axios were maliciously published on npm on March 31, 2026. A hijacked ...

Supply chain attack hits 300 million-download Axios npm package

A widely used JavaScript package used with hundreds of millions of downloads has been compromised in a new supply chain ...

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

The attackers swapped the account's email address for an anonymous ProtonMail inbox and pushed the infected packages manually ...

A popular coding tool was hijacked to deliver malware.

A hacker took over an account belonging to the lead maintainer of the JavaScript library, Axios, which is used to handle HTTP requests, as reported by Cybernews. Security researchers found that ...
Analytics Insight

Axios Supply Chain Attack Exposes Crypto Wallets to Hidden Malware Risk

Axios, a widely used JavaScript HTTP client, was briefly distributed through npm in two malicious versions after a maintainer account was taken over. Security r ...