A bug in npm (Node Package Manager), the most widely used JavaScript package manager, will change ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as /etc, /usr, /boot. Changing ownership of these ...

Are you a developer who uses npm as the package manager for your JavaScript or Node.js code? If so, do not -- I repeat do not -- upgrade to npm 5.7.0. Nothing good can come of it. As one user reported ...

Developers using the wildly popular npm registry to download JavaScript code may unwittingly be exposed to a range of cyber-threats because it fails to check the metadata of packages, it has emerged.

Workspaces support in the NPM CLI allow you to manage multiple packages from within a single top-level root package NPM 7.0.0, an upgrade to the JavaScript package manager, is due to be released with ...

Since 2017, hackers have been able to mimic legitimate packages on Node Package Manager (npm) by simply removing the capital letters in their titles. According to newly published research from ...

Every time a developer types npm install, they are placing a bet that the package they are pulling into their project is not laced with malicious code. In 2025, those odds got significantly worse.