{"id":7663,"date":"2026-04-03T13:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/unc1069-social-engineering-of-axios-maintainer-led-to-npm-supply-chain-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:12:18","slug":"unc1069-social-engineering-of-axios-maintainer-led-to-npm-supply-chain-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/unc1069-social-engineering-of-axios-maintainer-led-to-npm-supply-chain-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC1069 Social Engineering of Axios Maintainer Led to npm Supply Chain Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe\u00a0maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors tracked\u00a0as UNC1069.<br \/>\nMaintainer Jason Saayman said the attackers tailored their social engineering efforts &#8220;specifically to me&#8221; by first approaching him under the guise of the founder of a\u00a0The\u00a0maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors tracked\u00a0as UNC1069.<br \/>\nMaintainer Jason Saayman said the attackers tailored their social engineering efforts &#8220;specifically to me&#8221; by first approaching him under the guise of the founder of a\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe\u00a0maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors tracked\u00a0as UNC1069. Maintainer Jason Saayman said the attackers tailored their social engineering efforts &#8220;specifically to me&#8221; by first approaching him under the guise of the founder of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/unc1069-social-engineering-of-axios-maintainer-led-to-npm-supply-chain-attack\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UNC1069 Social Engineering of Axios Maintainer Led to npm Supply Chain Attack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}