A malicious package in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library to steal ...

(TNS) — QR codes must be eliminated from Georgia’s ballots by July 2026, but less than a year away from midterms, the state hasn’t figured out how to comply. State lawmakers passed the bill in 2024 to ...

A researcher warned that more than 400 NPM libraries, including at least 10 crypto packages mostly tied to ENS, were compromised by Shai Hulud malware. A major JavaScript supply-chain attack has ...

Flock Safety—the surveillance company behind the country’s largest network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs)—currently faces attacks on multiple fronts seeking to tear down the invasive and ...

Mojang Studios announced Tuesday it will eliminate code obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition, marking a significant shift in how the company distributes the game to its modding community. The change ...

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The Los Angeles Dodgers managed to get the best of the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 4 of the National League Division Series on Thursday, Oct. 9. The Dodgers and Phillies needed to go to the 11th ...

Attackers have poisoned a code package on the npm registry in a novel way, hiding credential-stealing malware in steganographic QR codes embedded in a package purporting to offer a JavaScript utility.

A malicious npm package named Fezbox has been found using an unusual technique to conceal harmful code. The package employs a QR code as part of its obfuscation strategy, ultimately aiming to steal ...

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to retrieve cookie-stealing malware from the threat actor's server. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this innovative ...

Harjot Gill was running FluxNinja, an observability startup he co-founded several years after selling his first startup Netsil to Nutanix in 2018, when he noticed a curious trend. “We had a team of ...

Dozens of npm libraries, including a color library with over 2 million downloads a week, have been replaced with novel self-replicating credential-stealing code in yet another wave of a supply chain ...