--- title: Supply Chain Attack Impacts Widely Used Axios npm Package description: The popular Axios npm package was compromised in a supply chain attack on March 31, 2026. Malicious versions (axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4) were published via... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/supply-chain-attack-impacts-widely-used-axios-npm-package-e3anajjqf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Supply Chain Attack Impacts Widely Used Axios npm Package | daily.dev og:description: The popular Axios npm package was compromised in a supply chain attack on March 31, 2026. Malicious versions (axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4) were published via... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/supply-chain-attack-impacts-widely-used-axios-npm-package-e3anajjqf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/E3anAjJqf.png og:image:alt: Supply Chain Attack Impacts Widely Used Axios npm Package og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Supply Chain Attack Impacts Widely Used Axios npm Package **[Arctic Wolf](https://daily.dev/sources/arcticwolf)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The popular Axios npm package was compromised in a supply chain attack on March 31, 2026. Malicious versions (axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4) were published via a hijacked maintainer account for roughly 3 hours, silently bundling a malicious dependency (plain-crypto-js@4.2.1) that contained a postinstall script acting as a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT). The RAT contacted a C2 server to deploy payloads on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The attack was pre-staged a day earlier with a decoy package to appear legitimate. Recommendations include reverting to safe versions (axios@1.14.0 or axios@0.30.3), rotating all credentials used in affected environments, clearing CI/CD caches and lockfiles, enforcing a 72-hour quarantine on new npm package versions, and using the --ignore-scripts flag in build pipelines. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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