The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

· · April 3, 2026, 11:05 p.m.
Summary
The blog post discusses a sophisticated social engineering attack on an Axios maintainer, detailing how the attackers tailored their approach to mimic a legitimate company and ultimately installed a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) to steal credentials. It emphasizes the need for open source maintainers to be aware of such attacks in order to protect against similar threats.
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