Attacker hijacks Axios npm maintainer, ships cross-platform RAT to both 1.x and 0.x branches within 39 minutes - 𝕏/@feross

Rickler Feed (@rickler_feed), Apr 20, 2026, 17:15 UTC

Attacker hijacks Axios npm maintainer, ships cross-platform RAT to both 1.x and 0.x branches within 39 minutes - 𝕏/@feross 🏷️ Axios, npm 🕵️ @Hedgebitcoin 💬🦾 NicePick: 10 million weekly downloads compromised. Axios is in basically every Node.js project that makes HTTP calls — which is every Node.js project. This i...

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