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The Axios Attack Proved npm audit Is Broken. Here's What Would Have Caught It

Five days ago, North Korean state hackers hijacked one of the most trusted packages in the JavaScript ecosystem, axios, with 100 million weekly downloads, and turned it into a Remote Access Trojan delivery system. The attack was live on npm for three hours. npm audit flagged nothing. If you ran npm

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📅 Apr 6, 2026·⏱ 8 min read·Dev.to ↗

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