Hackers compromise popular Axios Javascript library with hidden malware

The widely used Axios HTTP client library, a JavaScript component used by developers, was recently hacked to distribute ...

Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected

Attackers stole a long-lived npm token from the lead axios maintainer and published two poisoned versions that drop a ...
Microsoft

Mitigating the Axios npm supply chain compromise

On March 31, 2026, the popular HTTP client Axios experienced a supply chain attack, causing two newly published npm packages ...
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

One of JavaScript's most popular libraries compromised by hackers

An attacker compromised the npm account of a lead Axios maintainer on March 30, and used it to publish two malicious versions ...
InfoWorld

Software Development

Python 3.15 has introduced a feature to allow “lazy” module imports, where an imported module isn’t actually evaluated until the first time it’s used. For modules that take a long time to initialize ...