The widely used Axios HTTP client library, a JavaScript component used by developers, was recently hacked to distribute malware via a compromised account. Attackers exploited a hijacked account on npm ...
The Axios JavaScript NPM package was recently compromised, representing one of the highest impact supply chain attacks against the open source development ecosystem in recent months. Axios is the most ...
The maintainers of the popular Axios HTTP client have published a detailed post-mortem describing how one of its developers was targeted by a social engineering campaign linked to North Korean hackers ...
With almost 175,000 npm projects listing the library as a dependency, the attack had a huge cascade effect and shows how quickly a compromised package can propagate through the ecosystem. Attackers ...
Security companies flagged axios@1.14.1 and 0.30.4 as compromised, urging credential rotation and rollback of affected packages. Update March 31, 2026, 1:28 pm UTC: This article has been updated to ...