Security companies flagged axios@1.14.1 and 0.30.4 as compromised, urging credential rotation and rollback of affected packages. Update March 31, 2026, 1:28 pm UTC: This article has been updated to add comments from Abdelfattah Ibrahim, senior offensive security engineer at Hacken. Two malicious Axios npm releases have prompted warnings for developers to rotate credentials and treat affected systems as compromised after a supply chain attack poisoned the popular JavaScript HTTP client library. The compromise was first reported by cybersecurity company Socket, which said axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4 were modified to pull in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, a malicious dependency that ran automatically during installation before the releases were removed from npm. Read more
After an Indian court found no case against CoinDCX’s founders, the Coinbase-backed exchange said it will roll out an anti-fraud network to tackle impersonation and cyber fraud. CoinDCX has announced a 100 crore Indian rupees (around $11 million) Digital Suraksha Network as a response to brand impersonation and cyber fraud, days after a court said there was “no prima facie” case against its founders. The initiative, outlined by co-founder and CEO Sumit Gupta in a March 30 post on X, comes after he and fellow co-founder Neeraj Khandelwal were taken into police custody earlier in March over a complaint tied to a fake “CoinDCX Pro” website that cheated an investor out of around $75,000. Thane police detained the founders on March 21 in connection with the fraud case, and the magistrate court later granted them bail, finding no case against them, and that the complainant had never met the real founders. The fraud was carried out by third parties posing as the founders via a spoofed trading site, a version of even...
Bitcoin whale selling eased as BTC exchange inflows dropped sharply, making the trend line near $59,000 the critical support level to watch. Bitcoin (BTC) climbed to an intraday high of $68,300 during the early Asian trading hours on Tuesday amid a decline in whale selling. Selling in the derivatives markets also eased, suggesting that the “bearish position is becoming less aggressive,” according to a new analysis. Key takeaways: Large BTC deposits to Binance have dropped significantly, signaling reduced selling pressure. Read more