SMRTR ProgrammingApr 6, 2026TechCrunch

North Korea’s hijack of one of the web’s most used open source projects was likely weeks in the making

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North Korean hackers hijacked the Axios open source project by tricking its maintainer with fake company employees and malware-laden web meetings. The compromised packages were live for three hours, potentially affecting thousands of systems.

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