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npm supply-chain RAT in a widely used JavaScript library

March 31, 2026Fireship

Fireship details a remote access trojan found in an npm package with massive downloads, reinforcing that indie builders inherit supply-chain risk and need incident response steps when dependencies are compromised.

Millions of JS devs just got penetrated by a RAT…
a precision-guided remote access trojan was discovered in Axios
a JavaScript library with over 100 million downloads on npm
what to do if you're compromised
Millions of JS devs just got penetrated by a RAT….
Yesterday, a precision-guided remote access trojan was discovered in Axios, a JavaScript library with over 100 million downloads on npm.
this highly sophisticated attack was pulled off
Fireship
supply chainnpmincident responsejavascript

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