Hackers have hijacked 18 extremely popular npm packages, downloaded more than 2 billion times every week, injecting them with sophisticated malware that targets cryptocurrency users and developers. Early on September 8th, a security feed flagged the sudden update of 18 npm packages—including favorites like chalk, debug, chalk-template, and supports-color—with malicious code, as per a report by Aikio. These packages […]

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