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Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

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1208 points jamesberthoty | 1 comments | 16 Sep 25 11:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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codemonkey-zeta ◴[16 Sep 25 11:56 UTC] No.45261026[source]▶
I'm coming to the unfortunate realizattion that supply chain attacks like this are simply baked into the modern JavaScript ecosystem. Vendoring can mitigate your immediate exposure, but does not solve this problem.

These attacks may just be the final push I needed to take server rendering (without js) more seriously. The HTMX folks convinced me that I can get REALLY far without any JavaScript, and my apps will probably be faster and less janky anyway.

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hoppp ◴[16 Sep 25 12:54 UTC] No.45261571[source]▶
They are. Any language that depends heavily on package managers and lacks a standard lib is vulnerable to this.

At some point people need to realize and go back to writing vanilla js, which will be very hard.

The rust ecosystem is also the same. Too much dependence on packages.

An example of doing it right is golang.

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1. rs186 ◴[16 Sep 25 12:59 UTC] No.45261629[source]▶
Python and Rust both have decent std lib, but it is just a matter of time before this happens in thoae ecosystems. There is nothing unique about this specific attack that could only happen in JavaScript.