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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.
This package contains the bzip2 debug and release DLLs, the corresponding import libraries and the bzip2 header file. It was built with Visual Studio 2010 (V100).
The source code used to build this package is available at https://github.com/zeroc-ice/bzip2.
git clone git@github.com:zeroc-ice/bzip2.git -b msvc
cd bzip2
MSBuild msbuild\bzip2.proj /t:NugetPack
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bzip2 is a high-quality, freely available data compressor.
We found that bzip2.v100 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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Research
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.

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