The NPM Situation Is Getting Worse Everyday...
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The npm ecosystem is facing an escalating supply chain security crisis. Recent attacks include a sophisticated social engineering scheme where attackers impersonated a startup on a fake Teams call to convince the Axios maintainer to ship a remote access Trojan — reaching 100 million weekly downloads in just 3 hours. Other threats include dependency confusion attacks mimicking internal company packages, a self-replicating worm called Shai Hulud that spreads by stealing npm tokens, and compromised GitHub accounts slipping malicious code into 32 Red Hat packages undetected. The post also highlights how AI coding agents that auto-install packages without human review, combined with AI hallucinating package names that attackers pre-register, are making the problem worse. npm has blocked over 1.2 million malicious packages total, a number that grew 75% in a single year.