The Axios Hack: How a single compromised account put millions of developers at risk

What makes this attack so unsettling is that all the hackers had to do was just steal the password of one of the axios maintainers.

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 ...
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One of JavaScript's most popular libraries compromised by hackers

An attacker compromised the npm account of a lead Axios maintainer on March 30, and used it to publish two malicious versions ...

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 ...