'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Main Packaging System Where This Regularly Happens

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan#am-i-affected

axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan - StepSecurity

Hijacked maintainer account used to publish poisoned axios releases including 1.14.1 and 0.30.4. The attacker injected a hidden dependency that drops a cross platform RAT. We are actively investigating and will update this post with a full technical analysis.

@davidgerard hackers don't pull that shit on Maven Central because they pity us
@davidgerard there's a reason I'm writing all my own dependencies these days ðŸ«