Bleeping Computer

npm dependency is breaking some React apps today — here's the fix

Tons of users are reporting their Facebook Create React App builds are failing since yesterday. The cause has been traced down to a dependency used by create-react-app, the latest version of which is ...

Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines

Updated: Hijacked maintainer account let attackers slip cross-platform trojan into 100M-downloads-a-week Axios ...
CSOonline

Npm ecosystem vulnerable to new manifest confusion attack

Package manifests in the npm registry are not validated against metadata files in the package itself, leaving the door open for attackers. The npm (Node Package Manager) ecosystem of JavaScript ...
InfoQ

Manifest Confusion Paves the Way to New npm Supply Chain Threats

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Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected

Attackers stole a long-lived npm token from the lead axios maintainer and published two poisoned versions that drop a cross-platform RAT. Axios sits in 80% of cloud environments. Huntress confirmed ...
Linux Journal

Installing and Using Yarn on Ubuntu

Yarn is a powerful JavaScript package manager that is compatible with npm and helps automate the process of installing, updating, configuring, and removing npm packages. Yarn provides speed and ...