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	by QuantumNoodle 4 days ago
	Man, I never hear good security things about npm

2 comments

This doesn't really have anything to do with npm.

From the Arch mailing list [0]

>The result is a rather long list of ~408 packages all doing npm install atomic-lockfile something something

They could've pip installed, curl|sh'd or anything else, it's not relevant to the underlying issue.

Perhaps there were other vectors, but npm was the one used here.

And yes, this is an AUR issue, but npm being used to host and dissiminate malware is also [a chronic] one, even if separate.

anything except that it's malware installed via npm

As you can see here, they've already switched it out for a different command, likely due to incident responders over-indexing on npm as an IOC.

So true. The JavaScript ecosystem is trash.