Are you a developer who uses npm as the package manager for your JavaScript or Node.js code? If so, do not -- I repeat do not -- upgrade to npm 5.7.0. Nothing good can come of it. As one user reported ...

The Node Package Manager (npm) team avoided a disaster today when it discovered and blocked the distribution of a cleverly hidden backdoor mechanism inside a popular —albeit deprecated— JavaScript ...

A weakness in Node Package Manager (npm) could allow anybody to hide malicious dependencies and scripts within their packages, a former GitHub employee claims. Npm is owned by GitHub and is used for ...

Four packages containing highly obfuscated malicious Python and JavaScript code were discovered this week in the Node Package Manager (npm) repository. According to a report from Kaspersky, the ...

A new cyberattack has put millions of crypto users on alert after hackers slipped malicious code into NPM, the software registry that powers thousands of apps and websites, including many tied to ...

At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious software today, after a developer involved ...

Developers adept at multiple coding languages are tricked into installing a familiar-sounding package from within the Node Package Manager registry instead of the original source. Hackers are abusing ...