Axios npm Supply Chain Attack: Cross-Platform RAT Delivery via Compromised Maintainer Credentials
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On March 31, 2026, automated malware detection systems flagged a live supply chain compromise targeting Axios, the JavaScript ecosystem's most widely adopted HTTP client library with approximately 83 million weekly downloads on npm. The attack injected a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) dropper through a malicious transitive dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, into two newly published Axios versions.
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