Axios, Super Popular NPM Package, Was Compromised in Attack on the Module’s Maintainer

StepSecurity: If you have installed axios@1.14.1 or axios@0.30.4, assume your system is compromised. There are zero lines of malicious code inside axios itself, and that’s exactly what makes this attack so dangerous. Both poisoned releases inject a fake dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 , a package never imported anywhere in the axios source, whose sole purpose is to run a postinstall script that deploys a cross-platform remote access trojan. The dropper contacts a live command-and-control serve