The hacker can use any of the stolen npm credentials to poison other JavaScript libraries that are made available via npm — a.k.a. the Node Package Manager, the semi-official package manager for ...

The JavaScript packages were designed to steal environmental variables, such as developers’ credentials, from the projects they infected and upload them to the attacker-controlled server npm ...

The reason for this rise can be found in the latest survey of 33,000 developers from 156 countries who use npm, a hugely popular Node.js JavaScript package manager that's traditionally used to ...

└──getcookies Mailparser is an npm package for parsing email data using JavaScript. This is an old library, and one that's been deprecated in favor of a newer one named "Nodemailer." ...

In October, the npm team removed three npm (JavaScript) packages that were also caught opening reverse shells (backdoors) on developer computers. The three packages were also discovered by Sonatype.

The hackers use JavaScript web injections to steal the victims' banking information once they log in on a bank's website, Kaspersky notes in its recent report.

The NPM registry of JavaScript packages has become a critical cog in the language’s ecosystem, letting developers discover and use reusable code packages.