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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
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Turns an AST into code.
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The npm package @babel/generator receives a total of 120,435,540 weekly downloads. As such, @babel/generator popularity was classified as popular.
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