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Hackers Launch Large-Scale Crypto Attack Using JavaScript Accounts, Potentially Affecting 1 Billion Downloads
Summary: According to Finance Magnates, Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet warned of an NPM supply chain attack, where hackers compromised a well-known developer account to push malicious code to widely-used JavaScript packages, with the cumulative download count of the packages exceeding 1 billion. The intrusion reportedly began with a phishing email sent to NPM maintainers, threatening to ...
According to Finance Magnates, Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet warned of an NPM supply chain attack, where hackers compromised a well-known developer account to push malicious code to widely-used JavaScript packages, with the cumulative download count of the packages exceeding 1 billion. The intrusion reportedly began with a phishing email sent to NPM maintainers, threatening to lock their accounts unless they updated two-factor authentication by September 10th.
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