Software Packages With More Than 2 Billion Weekly Downloads Hit In Supply Chain Attack

Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack

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Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely to be the world’s biggest supply-chain attack ever. The attack, which compromised nearly two dozen packages hosted on the npm repository, came to public notice on Monday in social media posts. Around the same time, […]

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