The NPM (Node Package Manager) registry suffers from a security lapse called "manifest confusion," which undermines the trustworthiness of packages and makes it possible for attackers to hide malware ...

Since 2017, hackers have been able to mimic legitimate packages on Node Package Manager (npm) by simply removing the capital letters in their titles. According to newly published research from ...

Developers using the wildly popular npm registry to download JavaScript code may unwittingly be exposed to a range of cyber-threats because it fails to check the metadata of packages, it has emerged.

Four packages containing highly obfuscated malicious Python and JavaScript code were discovered this week in the Node Package Manager (npm) repository. According to a report from Kaspersky, the ...

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. As ...

npm, short for Node Package Manager, is a package manager for JavaScript applications that has gotten fairly popular since its debut over 10 years ago. In fact, it's the largest developer ecosystem in ...