North Korean Hackers Suspected in Axios Software Tool Breach (2)

Axios, a tool widely used to develop software applications, was compromised overnight, introducing a vulnerability in a key part of the internet’s plumbing.

Hackers were able to breach one of the few accounts that can release new versions of Axios late Monday and published malicious versions of it. Axios, or Axios NPM, is a client that software developers use to send requests to servers — allowing software to connect to the web — and is downloaded about 80 million times every week. NPMs are reusable packages of code that make it faster to develop software.

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group ...