A significant supply chain attack hit NPM after 17 popular Gluestack '@react-native-aria' packages with over 1 million downloads were compromised to include malicious code that acts as a remote access trojan (RAT).
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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Doesn't he Windows 11 start menu use React-native?
The malware is not on react-native, but react-native-aria. A "copy" of Adobe's react-aria libs.
Is this a new one or is this last week's? It's hard to keep the weekly supply chain 'sploits straight. Feed your leopards, kids.