An NPM supply-chain attack dating back to December 2021 used dozens of malicious NPM modules containing obfuscated Javascript code to compromise hundreds of downstream desktop apps and websites.

A significant supply chain attack hit NPM after 15 popular Gluestack packages with over 950,000 weekly downloads were compromised to include malicious code that acts as a remote access trojan (RAT).

Remote access Trojan found in npm package with 40,000 weekly downloads Attackers had added malicious code to the rand-user-agent package, which is used for automatic tests and web scraping, among ...