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1208 points jamesberthoty | 1 comments | 16 Sep 25 11:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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codemonkey-zeta ◴[16 Sep 25 11:56 UTC] No.45261026[source]▶

>>45260741 (OP) #

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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1. kubafu ◴[16 Sep 25 20:00 UTC] No.45267210[source]▶

>>45261026 #

Took that route myself and I don't regret it. Now I can at least entirely avoid Node.js ecosystem.

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