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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
Launch puppeteer and open your pages with devtools.
# install
npm i -g chrome-dev
# or without install
npx chrome-dev
# launch chrome with empty page
chrome-dev
# laucnh chrome with ./extension loaded as extension
chrome-dev -e ./extension
# same as above and open example.com in the first page
chrome-dev -e ./extension https://example.com
# launch chrome and open http://localhost:3000
chrome-dev -p 3000
# show version
chrome-dev -v
# show help
chrome-dev -h
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The main repo is in here, any issue and PR's welcome.
FAQs
Launch puppeteer and open your page. npx chrome-dev http://localhost:3000
We found that chrome-dev demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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