Dark Reading

Axios NPM Package Compromised in Precision Attack

The NPM package for Axios, a popular JavaScript HTTP client library, was briefly compromised this week, possibly by North ...
GovInfoSecurity

Backdooring of JavaScript Library Axios Tied to North Korea

A supply-chain attack backdoored versions of Axios, a popular JavaScript library that's present in many different software ...
Developer Tech

Axios npm attack causes JavaScript supply chain chaos

Security teams are grappling with a major supply chain attack on Axios, a popular JavaScript library with over 100 million ...

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 ...
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 ...

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 ...
The Hacker News

UNC1069 Social Engineering of Axios Maintainer Led to npm Supply Chain Attack

UNC1069 compromised Axios 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 via social engineering, impacting 100M weekly downloads and exposing supply ...
Dark ReadingOpinion

Source Code Leaks Highlight Lack of Supply Chain Oversight

Or, why the software supply chain should be treated as critical infrastructure with guardrails built in at every layer.

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 ...
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 ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: The Supply Chain Has Problems

The biggest story of the week is a new massive supply chain breach, which appears to be unrelated to the previous massive supply chain breaches, this time of the Axios HTTP project. Axios was ...