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Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm not familiar with npm but why is this always NPM? Is it a specific issue they have?

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[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 months ago (1 child)

It's a "package manager" that has zero integrity checks built in. Web devs also love it. Nice combination.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Culture problem imo.

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[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago

because it's the biggest. Just like how hackers target windows and not linux (assuming they are targeting users and not servers).

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