npm Adds 2FA-Gated Publishing and Package Install Controls Against Supply Chain Attacks

2026-05-24T01:24:05Z9e1bfacf913f3545589aa0e6c724da13f525033d180741989c35630ba5c497ff
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What happened

A broad wave of high-impact security events and active exploitations was reported across software supply chains, open-source ecosystems, enterprise products, and cloud/CI infrastructure. Notable supply-chain incidents include npm's new 2FA-gated staged publishing, a Packagist campaign delivering a GitHub-hosted Linux binary to eight packages, and multiple compromised PHP packages in the laravel-lang ecosystem delivering a credential stealer. Large-scale repository and CI abuse was observed in the Megalodon campaign (5,561 GitHub repos) and a GitHub internal breach tied to a poisoned Nx Console

Why it matters

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2026-05-24T01:24:05Z
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