A new security bypass has users installing AI agent OpenClaw — whether they intended to or not. Researchers have discovered that a compromised npm publish token pushed an update for the widely-used ...
An ongoing attack is uploading hundreds of malicious packages to the open source node package manager (NPM) repository in an attempt to infect the devices of developers who rely on code libraries ...
Every time a developer types npm install, they are placing a bet that the package they are pulling into their project is not laced with malicious code. In 2025, those odds got significantly worse.