"No way to prevent this" say users of only package manager where this regularly happens

In the hours following the news that Redhat Insights' JavaScript packages fell victim to a supply chain attack via NPM, developers and systems administrators scrambled ensure all of their projects were unaffected from a supply chain attack that steals credentials for AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, npm, and CircleCI before then self-propagating via said stolen npm credentials and the bypass_2fa setting. This establishes persistence via Claude Code hooks and VS Code task injection. If you have installed the affected package, reprovision your development hardware. This is is due to the affected dependencies being distributed via NPM, the only package manager where these supply-chain attacks regularly happen. "This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them," said programmer Lady Eulah Howell, echoing statements expressed by hundreds of thousands of programmers who use the only package manager where 90% of…