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The Landscape of Malicious Open Source Packages: 2025 Mid‑Year Threat Report
A look at the top trends in how threat actors are weaponizing open source packages to deliver malware and persist across the software supply chain.
AXO stands for ActiveXObject. And the sole purpose of this library is to
return the ActiveXObject
constructor from the environment it's loaded in.
Normally you would just reference the constructor directly by simply mentioning
this constructor in your source file can result in blocking of your
file.
There are 2 ways of tackling this issue:
AXO
and never mention it.npm install --save axo
This module makes the assumption that it can be loaded in node.js/commonjs based
environment and exports it self on the module.exports
. So using browserify for
the code makes a lot of sense here.
var AXO = require('axo');
new AXO('htmlfile');
MIT
FAQs
Return an ActiveXObject without mentioning it in the source
The npm package axo receives a total of 61,090 weekly downloads. As such, axo popularity was classified as popular.
We found that axo demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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