A hacker compromised 18 widely used npm packages by phishing a developer and injecting cryptocurrency-stealing malware. The attack leveraged a typosquatted domain to obtain credentials, resulting in malicious code being pushed to packages with over two billion weekly downloads. The financial impact was limited, but the incident highlights critical supply chain and open-source security risks.
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