{"id":221706,"date":"2025-09-11T04:31:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/hackers-left-empty-handed-after-massive-npm-supply-chain-attack"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:31:54","slug":"hackers-left-empty-handed-after-massive-npm-supply-chain-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/hackers-left-empty-handed-after-massive-npm-supply-chain-attack","title":{"rendered":"Hackers left empty-handed after massive NPM supply-chain attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-left-empty-handed-after-massive-npm-supply-chain-attack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The largest supply-chain compromise in the history of the NPM ecosystem has impacted roughly 10% of all cloud environments, but the attacker made little profit off it.<\/p>\n<p>The attack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/hackers-hijack-npm-packages-with-2-billion-weekly-downloads-in-supply-chain-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">occurred earlier this week<\/a> after maintainer Josh Junon (qix) fell for a password reset phishing lure and compromised multiple highly popular NPM packages, among them <em>chalk<\/em> and <em>degub-js,<\/em> that cumulatively have more than 2.6 billion weekly downloads.<\/p>\n<p>After gaining access to Junon\u2019s account, the attackers pushed malicious updates with a malicious module that stole cryptocurrency by redirecting transactions to the threat actor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest supply-chain compromise in the history of the NPM ecosystem has impacted roughly 10% of all cloud environments, but the attacker made little profit off it. The attack occurred earlier this week after maintainer Josh Junon (qix) fell for a password reset phishing lure and compromised multiple highly popular NPM packages, among them chalk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}