massive campaign for 170+ packages and 400+ malicious versions published. what we saw that not a single maintainer account compromised. tanStack and Mistral AI these are the names that stand out.

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Still, npm itself isn’t inherently unsafe

    The bucket stops at that it isn’t safe. Which is partially a cultural problem. And npm users worked hard to get to that place - it’s not the case that them were not given warnings.