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Compromised dYdX npm and PyPI packages delivered wallet-stealing malware and a RAT via poisoned updates in a software supply chain attack.

Experts uncovered malicious Chrome extensions that replace affiliate links, exfiltrate data, and steal ChatGPT authentication tokens from users.

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Over the holidays, Alex Lieberman had an idea: What if he could create Spotify “Wrapped” for his text messages? Without writing a single line of code, Lieberman, a co-founder of the media outlet ...

Microsoft is previewing a new AI-assisted tool for Visual Studio Code Insiders called the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer. It's designed to help developers modernize older JavaScript or TypeScript ...

Note that chrome has async/await support as of v52, though it is locked behind flags. Open chrome's flags page, then search for and enable the "Experimental JavaScript" option. I logically split the ...

A critical vulnerability in the popular expr-eval JavaScript library, with over 800,000 weekly downloads on NPM, can be exploited to execute code remotely through maliciously crafted input. The ...

The web-based App Store browser Apple introduced Tuesday had some rookie mistakes in its implementation, which has led to the front-end source code getting published on GitHub. The result is a set of ...

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on ...