Node.js security covers vulnerabilities, dependency risks, and runtime defenses that can affect server-side applications and their data.
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Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime that executes JavaScript outside a web browser, using Google’s V8 engine. Its event-driven, non-blocking input/output model is widely used for web servers, APIs, command-line tools, and backend services. The runtime is not itself an application framework; security outcomes depend substantially on the code and modules running within it.
Security concerns include vulnerabilities in the Node.js runtime, insecure application logic such as injection or server-side request forgery, and risks from the large npm dependency ecosystem. Malicious or compromised packages, unsafe install scripts, transitive dependencies, and prototype-pollution flaws can expand an application’s attack surface. Practitioners should track runtime and package advisories, use lockfiles and dependency review, restrict package-install and process permissions where practical, validate untrusted input, and protect credentials and session data. During incidents, dependency inventories and build records help determine whether a vulnerable module or runtime was deployed.
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Threat actors leveraged Anthropic’s Claude Code npm release packaging error to distribute Vidar, GhostSocks, and PureLog Stealer. This blog details immediate steps organizations can take and best practices to prevent further risk.
A packaging error in Anthropic’s Claude Code npm release briefly exposed internal source code. This entry examines how threat actors rapidly weaponized the resulting attention, pivoting an existing AI-themed campaign to spread Vidar and GhostSocks.
A packaging error in Anthropic’s Claude Code npm release briefly exposed internal source code. This entry examines how threat actors rapidly weaponized the resulting attention, pivoting an existing AI-themed campaign to spread Vidar and GhostSocks.
A supply chain attack hit Axios when attackers used stolen npm credentials to publish malicious versions containing a phantom dependency. This triggered a cross-platform RAT during installation and replaced its files with clean decoys, making detection challenging.
Shai-hulud 2.0 campaign features a sophisticated variant capable of stealing credentials and secrets from major cloud platforms and developer services, while automating the backdooring of NPM packages maintained by victims. Its advanced tactics enable rapid, stealthy propagation across the software supply chain, putting countless downstream users at risk.
Learn the state of AI and the NPM ecosystem with the recent s1ngularity' weaponized AI for credential theft.
Trend™ Research outlines the critical details behind the ongoing NPM supply chain attack and offers essential steps to stay protected against potential compromise.
The Trend Micro Managed XDR team encountered malicious operations that used techniques similar to the ones used by Genesis Market, a website for facilitating fraud that was taken down in April 2023.
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