This is the fourth supply chain compromise on npm in just over a week.
If you don't follow this space closely, here's the bigger picture: these are part of an organized campaign that's hitting popular packages and slipping in malware.
What makes this campaign different is how aggressive it is: the payload doesn’t just run locally -- it actively hunts for developer and CI/CD credentials, spins up rogue GitHub Actions, and uses those to keep propagating. That’s a step beyond the usual crypto miner or info stealer.
npm and other package registries have become the weakest link in modern software. Every developer depends on them, yet a single compromised dependency can cascade into thousands of downstream apps and companies.
If you don't follow this space closely, here's the bigger picture: these are part of an organized campaign that's hitting popular packages and slipping in malware.
What makes this campaign different is how aggressive it is: the payload doesn’t just run locally -- it actively hunts for developer and CI/CD credentials, spins up rogue GitHub Actions, and uses those to keep propagating. That’s a step beyond the usual crypto miner or info stealer.
npm and other package registries have become the weakest link in modern software. Every developer depends on them, yet a single compromised dependency can cascade into thousands of downstream apps and companies.