Why is npm making this change now, in July 2026?
Tech Times reports the redesign is npm's direct response to a year of supply-chain attacks, including North Korea-linked campaigns against Axios and Mastra AI that exploited postinstall hooks to run malicious code automatically the moment a package was installed, without any application code ever executing.
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