Open-source ecosystems power modern software development. Millions of developers rely on public repositories to accelerate innovation and reduce development time. That trust, however, is increasingly being weaponized. New reporting from The Hacker News reveals that North Korean threat actors have published 26 malicious packages to the npm registry in an attempt to compromise developer environments
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