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axios supply chain attack social engineering
2026-04-03 19:31:05.232108+02 by
Dan Lyke
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Simon
Willison has a link to the axios
npm supply chain compromise post-mortem, including Jayson Saayman's
description of how the social engineering worked.
tl;dr: extremely real looking contact with a company that eventually ended up as a
Microsoft Teams meeting, that complained that some component was out of date, update
process on that component was the compromise.
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