colors.js and faker.js protestware sabotage
In 2022, maintainer Marak Squires turned colors.js and faker.js into protestware, breaking 19,000+ npm projects and coining a new supply chain threat term.
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In 2022, maintainer Marak Squires turned colors.js and faker.js into protestware, breaking 19,000+ npm projects and coining a new supply chain threat term.
In March 2022, node-ipc's maintainer shipped code wiping files on Russian and Belarusian machines. Here's what happened, how it spread, and how to catch it next time.
A self-replicating npm worm hit 500+ packages in September 2025 and 796 more in November — here's how Shai-Hulud actually spread, stole secrets, and what stops it.
Shai-Hulud's November 2025 second wave hit npm via a Bun-based worm, stealing cloud creds and re-publishing trojanized packages at scale.
TeamPCP's Mini Shai-Hulud worm hijacked 42 TanStack npm packages via stolen GitHub OIDC tokens, spreading to 169 packages with valid SLSA attestations.
A compromised npm maintainer account pushed 639 malicious @antv package versions in 10 minutes, stealing CI/CD secrets via a fake OpenTelemetry channel.
How the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action compromise (CVE-2025-30066) leaked CI/CD secrets from 23,000+ repos, and how to prevent it.
How a malicious pull request, a poisoned GitHub Actions cache, and a stored PyPI token turned the Ultralytics YOLO package into a cryptominer.
A compromised maintainer account pushed malicious axios releases carrying a cross-platform RAT to npm on March 31, 2026 — here's the full timeline and IOCs.
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