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NPM Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Axios Versions (1.6.0-1.6.2) Detection and Remediation

SA
Security Arsenal Team
April 16, 2026
1 min read

The open-source ecosystem suffered a significant trust breach when the popular HTTP client library Axios was compromised. Threat actors successfully targeted a maintainer using a sophisticated social engineering campaign—reportedly involving a job offer and deepfake technologies—to coerce the transfer of publish rights. Consequently

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