Amazon Links Debug and Chalk npm Hijack to North Korea’s Sapphire Sleet
- ID
- 9420
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 30 Jul 2026, 2:05 PM
- Fetched
- 31 Jul 2026, 10:38 AM
- Provider
- The Hacker News
- Category
- security
- Original URL
- https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/amazon-links-debug-and-chalk-npm-hijack.html
- Source URL
- https://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHackersNews
Excerpt
Amazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea. For ten months, the incident sat in the public record as crypto theft: a maintainer phished through a lookalike npm domain and a wallet-draining script pushed into at least 18 packages carrying more than 2 billion weekly downloads between them. The original Aikido and Wiz reports did not attribute the
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