Still Trusting Automated Patches Blindly? Think Again
July 23, 2025
The Breach: A High-Impact Compromise JounQin’s npm account, the maintainer of popular packages such as eslint-config-prettier, was compromised in a phishing attack. The attackers used the breached credentials to publish six malicious versions of eslint-config-prettier, along with three additional infected packages tied to the same account. In total, the compromised packages see roughly 78 million …