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.

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    2 days ago

    Another supply chain attack has hit npm. Crazy. Feels a bit scary to use npm right now.

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    Yeah, it’s getting pretty concerning. What makes this one worse is that it doesn’t look like maintainer accounts were even compromised, which suggests automated package flooding rather than traditional account takeover.

    Still, npm itself isn’t inherently unsafe — the bigger risk is dependency trust and how quickly malicious packages can propagate. Pinning versions, using lockfiles, and auditing dependencies is more important than ever right now.