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#3 BleepingComputer general April 04, 2026 at 20:30 UTC

Axios npm hack used fake Teams error fix to hijack maintainer account

By Lawrence Abrams

AI Summary

Axios HTTP client maintainers revealed their developer was targeted by North Korean threat actors using a fake Microsoft Teams error fix in a social engineering campaign to hijack the maintainer account. The attack represents a sophisticated supply chain targeting effort against one of JavaScript's most popular HTTP libraries. This demonstrates how nation-state actors are increasingly targeting open-source maintainers to compromise widely-used development tools.

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