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North Korea-Nexus Threat Actor Compromises Widely Used Axios NPM Package in Supply Chain Attack
North Korean threat actor compromises widely-used Axios NPM package in major supply chain attack
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Written by: Austin Larsen, Dima Lenz, Adrian Hernandez, Tyler McLellan, Christopher Gardner, Ashley Zaya, Michael Rudden, Mon Liclican Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is tracking an active software supply chain attack targeting the popular Node Package Manager (NPM) package " axios ." Between March 31, 2026, 00:21 and 03:20 UTC, an attacker introduced a malicious dependency named " plain-crypto-js " into axios NPM releases versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4. Axios is the most popula
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