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A little-known npm package was North Korea’s warm-up act for the axios hack

CyberScoop · · US Federal · Data Breaches

Amazon's threat intelligence team traced domain records from the open-source software hack to a smaller, earlier compromise by the same North Korean group. The post A little-known npm package was North Korea’s warm-up act for the axios hack appeared first on CyberScoop.

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