Elastic Security Labs, SentinelOne, and others track the Axios npm compromise, stressing how quickly infections appeared and how semver and dependency resolution can expand blast radius across builds.
it caught the Axios npm compromise before most people knew it existed.
it took 89 seconds for the first infection to be observed after the suspected North Korean attack went live
Socket Dev cautioned that time-dependent dependency resolution can push a malicious Axios release through broad semver ranges and dynamic tooling, creating a larger, harder-to-detect blast radius than it first appears.
#Axios was compromised Mar 30.
100M downloads. One poisoned config.
The following Monday night it caught the Axios npm compromise before most people knew it existed.
Elastic Security Labs is open sourcing the tool.
Axios npm package compromised in supply chain attack, pushing RAT via malicious updates.
Millions of apps at risk — affected systems may need full rebuild and credential rotation.
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