"Listed alongside their downloads per week, these packages include: ansi-regex (243.64 million) supports-color (287.1 million) strip-ansi (261.17 million) color-string (27.48 million) error-ex (47.17 million) color-name (191.71 million) is-arrayish (73.8 million) slice-ansi (59.8 million) color-convert (193.5 million) chalk (299.99 million) debug (357.6 million) ansi-styles (371.41 million) has-ansi (12.1 million) simple-swizzle (26.26 million) backslash (0.26 million) chalk-template (3.9 million) supports-hyperlinks (19.2 million) wrap-ansi (197.99 million) In total, these packages have more than 2 billion downloads each week."
"As a central hub for modern software, nearly every company with an online presence will depend on npm, often without realizing. Any compromise's impact will spread far and wide, making a breach like this seem especially alarming. To avoid feeling overwhelmed by attacks which expose not just one company but entire ecosystems, security teams need to focus on what they can and can't control."
Eighteen widely used npm packages were updated with malicious code, collectively receiving more than two billion downloads each week. A maintainer was compromised after responding to a convincing phishing email that prompted an update of two-factor authentication credentials, enabling the malicious pushes. The compromise highlights npm's central role in modern software and the potential for widespread impact across ecosystems. Security leaders recommend focusing on internal controls that can be managed, maximizing visibility into infrastructure, privileged access, configurations, and patching status, and relying on verifiable data to build measurable resilience.
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