The JavaScript package management tool 'npm' is scheduled to implement a change in its 'npm v12' release, which is expected in July 2026. This change will prevent the script that is automatically ...

A series of malicious packages hidden within the Node Package Manager (npm), the largest software registry for JavaScript, has been uncovered. According to a new advisory published by FortiGuard on ...

Threat actors have likely made off with sensitive host and network information from developers’ systems in a coordinated malware campaign, involving 60 malicious npm packages, that were live for just ...

The security firm Socket warns of a campaign with malicious scripts in npm packages. The analysts have discovered 60 of these packages that contain an infostealer, which in turn spies on a machine ...

The change, expected in July, will likely block one of the more common attack vectors; developers are wondering what took GitHub so long, and why other repositories acted so much sooner. The ability ...

Any development environment that installed or imported one of the 172 compromised npm or PyPI packages published since May 11 should be treated as potentially compromised. On affected developer ...

With npm v12, GitHub closes a central attack vector: installation scripts from dependencies will only run after explicit approval from July 2026.