
North Korea’s Lazarus Group Behind the Axios npm Supply Chain Attack
On Monday, the Axios npm supply chain attack came to light where malicious packages had been inserted into one of JavaScript's most widely used libraries. Three major threat intelligence firms have now attributed the attack to North Korea's Lazarus Group, and the scale of the fallout is considerably larger than initially understood. The attack was confirmed as North Korean state-sponsored on when Google Threat Intelligence Group published its attribution, identifying the responsible actor as UNC1069 — a financially motivated North Korea-nexus group active since at least 2018 and tracked by Mandiant, now part of Google. ThreatBook independently reached the same conclusion, attributing the cam...