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This is serious stuff and we will definitely see more of it in the future! As there are more and more node.js developers, it will be more profitable to run a scam like this and you only need to hijack one page that has a lot of dependencies, one package that is for example used by `express` to get access to a lot of users.

The only thing you can do is be careful and listen for projects like node security.




Or use some other technology.


There are remarkably few dependency management systems not vulnerable to some variant of this attack.


Then again, a project with <20 dependencies has fewer "entry points" for this attack than a typical NPM project with 500+ transitive dependencies.




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