Crypto-steel malware infiltrates Kern JavaScript libraries used by millions

The NPM (Node Packet Manager) account of developer ‘Qix’ was compromised, allowing Hackers to publish malignant versions of his packages. The attackers published malignant versions of dozens of extremely popular Javascript packages, including fundamental utilities. The hack was enormously designed, because the affected packages have more than 1 billion combined weekly downloads. This attack on […]