Inside these files—mainly the manifest (package.json) and index.js, there is nothing phenomenally interesting, just skeleton code. The manifest does pull in a bunch of development dependencies ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--npm, Inc., which runs the world’s largest software registry and maintains the npm software package management application, today announced the acquisition of ^Lift ...

Days after IBM and Red Hat announced a master security plan for open-source software, Red Hat suffers a major breach of its ...

Researchers continue to investigate a wave of malicious npm packages, with the published tally now reaching over 700. Last week, JFrog researchers disclosed the scheme in which an unknown threat actor ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--npm, Inc., which runs the world’s largest software registry and maintains the `npm` software package management application, today announced npm@6, a major update to ...

In a surprising move, the popular open source project, SheetJS aka "xlsx," has dropped support for the npm registry. Downloaded about 1.4 million times weekly on npm, SheetJS is relied upon by NodeJS ...

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 ...

Moving one folder quadrupled my build speeds without touching a single config.

JFrog says six malicious npm packages used hidden install-time execution, JSONKeeper fetches, and sandbox checks to enable remote access.

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