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#8 BleepingComputer general July 30, 2026 at 18:13 UTC

Amazon links Debug, Chalk NPM supply-chain attacks to North Korean hackers

By Bill Toulas

AI Summary

Amazon's AWS security team attributed multiple npm supply-chain attacks — including those targeting the 'Debug' and 'Chalk' packages, which have hundreds of millions of weekly downloads combined — to North Korean state-sponsored hackers. The attribution adds to a growing body of evidence linking DPRK threat actors to systematic open-source ecosystem poisoning campaigns targeting developer toolchains. Organizations consuming npm packages should enforce lockfile integrity checks and monitor for unexpected dependency changes.

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