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1208 points jamesberthoty | 1 comments | 16 Sep 25 11:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source

A lot of blogs on this are AI generated and such as this is developing, so just linking to a bunch of resources out there:

Socket:

- Sep 15 (First post on breach): https://socket.dev/blog/tinycolor-supply-chain-attack-affect...

- Sep 16: https://socket.dev/blog/ongoing-supply-chain-attack-targets-...

StepSecurity – https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/ctrl-tinycolor-and-40-npm-p...

Aikido - https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-...

Ox - https://www.ox.security/blog/npm-2-0-hack-40-npm-packages-hi...

Safety - https://www.getsafety.com/blog-posts/shai-hulud-npm-attack

Phoenix - https://phoenix.security/npm-tinycolor-compromise/

Semgrep - https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-advisory-npm-packages...

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gchamonlive ◴[16 Sep 25 11:36 UTC] No.45260844[source]▶

>>45260741 (OP) #

We've seen many reports of supply chain attacks affecting NPM. Are these symptoms of operational complexity, which can affect any such service, or is there something fundamentally wrong with NPM?

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karel-3d ◴[16 Sep 25 12:19 UTC] No.45261245[source]▶

>>45260844 #

There is a guy (ljharb) who is literally on TC39 - JavaScript specification committee - who is maintaining like 600 packages full of polyfills/dependencies/utilities.

It's just javascript being javascript.

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1. bapak ◴[16 Sep 25 14:28 UTC] No.45262735[source]▶

>>45261245 #

Irrelevant here. You use eslint-plugin-import with its 60 dependencies; One dependency or 60 is irrelevant because you only need one token: his. They're all his packages.

The problem with that guy is that the dependencies are useless to everyone except his ego.

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