On August 4, 2026, attackers compromised the GitHub account of the maintainer of the Keyv library, which has approximately 127 million weekly npm downloads. The attackers injected a credential-stealing worm into Keyv and several other widely-used packages owned by the same maintainer, including Cacheable, Flat-cache, and File-entry-cache.
aikido.dev
7 min
8/4/2026
Two malicious versions of the axios HTTP client library, axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4, were published to npm using compromised credentials of a lead maintainer. The attacker altered the maintainer's email to a ProtonMail address and manually published the malicious packages, which included a remote access Trojan.
stepsecurity.io
17 min
3/31/2026
On August 4, 2026, attackers compromised the GitHub account of the maintainer of the Keyv library, which has approximately 127 million weekly npm downloads. The attackers injected a credential-stealing worm into Keyv and several other widely-used packages owned by the same maintainer, including Cacheable, Flat-cache, and File-entry-cache.
aikido.dev
7 min
8/4/2026
Two malicious versions of the axios HTTP client library, axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4, were published to npm using compromised credentials of a lead maintainer. The attacker altered the maintainer's email to a ProtonMail address and manually published the malicious packages, which included a remote access Trojan.
stepsecurity.io
17 min
3/31/2026
On August 4, 2026, attackers compromised the GitHub account of the maintainer of the Keyv library, which has approximately 127 million weekly npm downloads. The attackers injected a credential-stealing worm into Keyv and several other widely-used packages owned by the same maintainer, including Cacheable, Flat-cache, and File-entry-cache.
aikido.dev
7 min
8/4/2026
Two malicious versions of the axios HTTP client library, axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4, were published to npm using compromised credentials of a lead maintainer. The attacker altered the maintainer's email to a ProtonMail address and manually published the malicious packages, which included a remote access Trojan.
stepsecurity.io
17 min
3/31/2026
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