Popular NPM Package Hijacked to Publish Crypto-mining Malware

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Friday warned of crypto-mining malware embedded in “UAParser.js,” a popular JavaScript NPM library with over 6 million weekly downloads, days after the NPM repository moved to get rid of three rogue packages that were found to mimic the same library.

The supply-chain attack targeting the open-source library saw three