By The Hacker News
Publication Date: 2026-04-01 07:44:00
Google has formally attributed the supply chain compromise of the popular Axios npm package to a financially motivated North Korean threat activity cluster tracked as UNC1069.
“We have attributed the attack to a suspected North Korean threat actor we track as UNC1069,” John Hultquist, chief analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), told The Hacker News in a statement.
“North Korean hackers have deep experience with supply chain attacks, which they’ve historically used to steal cryptocurrency. The full breadth of this incident is still unclear, but given the popularity of the compromised package, we expect it will have far reaching impacts.”
The development comes after threat actors seized control of the package maintainer’s npm account to push two trojanized versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 that introduced a malicious dependency named “plain-crypto-js” that’s used to deliver a cross-platform backdoor…
