Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
This article[0] investigated the payload. It's a RAT, so it's capable of executing whatever shell commands it receives, instead of just stealing credentials.

axios 1.14.1 was published to npm via a compromised maintainer account, injecting a trojanized dependency that executes a multi-platform reverse shell on install. No source code changes in axios itself, just a new entry in package.json.