Hackers compromise Axios npm package to drop cross-platform malware

Hackers hijacked the npm account of the Axios package, a JavaScript HTTP client with 100M+ weekly downloads, to deliver ...
Microsoft

Mitigating the Axios npm supply chain compromise

On March 31, 2026, the popular HTTP client Axios experienced a supply chain attack, causing two newly published npm packages ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: The Supply Chain Has Problems

The biggest story of the week is a new massive supply chain breach, which appears to be unrelated to the previous massive supply chain breaches, this time of the Axios HTTP project. Axios was ...
The Hacker News

Axios Supply Chain Attack Pushes Cross-Platform RAT via Compromised npm Account

Axios 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 injected malicious plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 after npm compromise on March 31, 2026, deploying ...

Malware on npm: HTTP client axios loads backdoor for Windows, macOS, and Linux

The maintainer account for the axios package on npm was compromised to inject a remote access trojan for Windows, macOS, and ...