axios-test-onenpm
Malicious code in axios-test-one (npm) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
What this malware does
[email protected] impersonates the real axios package (ships axios's README/CHANGELOG verbatim, bundles are stamped /*! Axios v1.18.9 Copyright (c) 2026 Jay and contributors */, and declares axios's own repository/homepage URLs) while adding an undeclared runtime dependency on telemetry-metrics@^0.2.1. lib/helpers/telemetry.js does import telemetry from "telemetry-metrics"; export function sendTelemetry(){ telemetry().plugin(); }, and lib/core/Axios.js invokes sendTelemetry() from _request whenever config.method === 'get'. Any code shipped by the third-party telemetry-metrics package therefore executes in the consumer's Node.js process on the first axios.get(...) call, giving that package arbitrary code execution in the installer's runtime under cover of the axios API surface.
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Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
TyposquatFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for axios-test-one (version 1.19.0). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging axios-test-one across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
axios-test-one is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove axios-test-one, install the correct package, and rotate any secrets exposed during the install since post-install scripts may have already run.
Did it already run?
If axios-test-one was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks axios-test-one before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.
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Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks axios-test-one-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the malicious outbound activity and severs the channel.