Malicious Spam Campaign Downs npm Registry
The npm registry has been asked by security experts to implement anti-bot technologies after it was discovered that the open-source repository has had sporadic denial of service (DoS) outages over the past month.
Npm advertises itself as the world's biggest software registry and offers over two million JavaScript packages for download.
Although spam campaigns have affected it in the past, the most recent four weeks have seen "by far the worst one we've seen yet," according to Jossef Harush Kadouri, head of software supply chain security at Checkmarx read more Malicious Spam Campaign Downs npm Registry.
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