Security News > 2021 > October > If you're using this hijacked NPM library anywhere in your software stack, read this

The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has warned developers that a version of the ua-parser-js JavaScript library, available via NPM, was infected with data-stealing and cryptocurrency-mining malware.

The NPM account hosting it was seemingly compromised by miscreants, who modified the package so that when installed, it would bring in various bits of malware on whatever system was running the code.

Github, which owns NPM these days, put out an advisory ratiing the issue as critical and urged all users to update their applications immediately to use non-tampered-with versions and roll out or deploy those apps.

"I believe someone was hijacking my npm account and published some compromised packages which will probably install malware as can be seen from the diff here," explained ua-parser-js developer Faisal Salman on Friday.

NTT has given itself a clean bill of health on the security front for the role it played in providing core connectivity to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Japan this year, despite a large number of attempts by miscreants to break the computer security of the event.

Microsoft is offering non-profit organizations free security training and auditing, and a set of security tools in the hope this will help groups keep cyber-criminals at bay.

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