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GitHub Boosting Security in Response to NPM Supply Chain Attacks

In the light of recent supply chain attacks targeting the NPM ecosystem, GitHub will implement tighter authentication and ...

NPM package caught using QR Code to fetch cookie-stealing malware

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to hide a second-stage payload to steal cookies from a user's web browser. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this ...
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GitHub moves to tighten npm security amid phishing, malware plague

Hundreds of compromised packages pulled as registry shifts to 2FA and trusted publishing GitHub, which owns the npm registry ...

GitHub is finally tightening up security around npm following multiple attacks

Furthermore, GitHub announced it would deprecate legacy classic tokens, as well as time-based one-time password (TOTP) 2FA, ...