
Sachin B
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Sachin B
@sachinbee
Tech and Media Educator with 25+ years' experience, AI enthusiast, budding drone-acharya. Also, a proud Dad, and lover of all things delicious...


🚨 CRITICAL: Active supply chain attack on axios -- one of npm's most depended-on packages. The latest axios@1.14.1 now pulls in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, a package that did not exist before today. This is a live compromise. This is textbook supply chain installer malware. axios has 100M+ weekly downloads. Every npm install pulling the latest version is potentially compromised right now. Socket AI analysis confirms this is malware. plain-crypto-js is an obfuscated dropper/loader that: • Deobfuscates embedded payloads and operational strings at runtime • Dynamically loads fs, os, and execSync to evade static analysis • Executes decoded shell commands • Stages and copies payload files into OS temp and Windows ProgramData directories • Deletes and renames artifacts post-execution to destroy forensic evidence If you use axios, pin your version immediately and audit your lockfiles. Do not upgrade.








We benchmarked TanStack Start, React Router, and Next.js running the exact same eCommerce app at 1,000 req/s on AWS EKS. The results were eye-opening.



















