Microsoft successfully hit by dependency hijacking again

From bleepingcomputer.com

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Microsoft has once again been successfully hit by a dependency hijacking attack.

Previously, as first reported by BleepingComputer, a researcher had ethically hacked over 35 major tech firms, including Microsoft, by exploiting a weakness called “dependency confusion.”

This month, another researcher found an npm internal dependency, after squatting which, he began receiving messages from Microsoft’s servers.

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