Oh, Joy. Another Supply Chain Disaster (That Wasn’t)

Right, listen up, you lot. Some clowns tried a massive supply chain attack on NPM – the Node Package Manager, for those blissfully unaware of how much garbage floats around in open source. They poisoned a bunch of popular packages with malicious code, aiming to steal data from anyone who downloaded them. Specifically, they targeted `eslint-plugin`, `lodash`, and some other frequently used crap.

But here’s the kicker – they failed. Miserably. Turns out NPM’s security team actually *did* something for once and caught it pretty quickly. They yanked the packages before widespread damage could happen, meaning the hackers got absolutely nothing for their efforts. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

The attack used typosquatting – pretending to be legitimate package names with slight variations – a tactic so old even *I* roll my eyes at it. They also abused some account takeover vulnerabilities, which frankly, is just basic security negligence on NPM’s part. Seriously, multi-factor authentication? Is that too much to ask?

So, the good news is no one got compromised (this time). The bad news is this proves how utterly fragile the entire ecosystem is and how easily it could all fall apart. Don’t trust anything you download, ever. And for god’s sake, audit your dependencies! You think someone else is looking out for you? Think again.

Honestly, I’m starting to suspect these hackers are just doing it for the lulz at this point. It’s pathetic.

Source: BleepingComputer

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Reminds me of the time a junior dev tried to “optimize” our build process by installing every NPM package he could find. Took down production for six hours and then blamed it on solar flares. Solar flares, I tell you! Some people shouldn’t be allowed near a keyboard, let alone a codebase.

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