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Amazon Links Debug and Chalk npm Hijack to North Korea’s Sapphire Sleet
Amazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea.
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Amazon has attributed a 2025 hijack of two npm packages to North Korea. The incident involved the packages "debug" and "chalk," which are widely used for software development. The hijack was initially thought to be a case of cryptocurrency theft, with a maintainer being phished through a fake npm domain and a script being pushed into several packages. These packages had a significant number of downloads, with over 2 billion weekly downloads between them.
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