Amazon Inspector detects over 150,000 malicious packages linked to token farming campaign

Amazon Inspector detects over 150,000 malicious packages linked to token farming campaign Amazon Inspector security researchers have identified and reported over 150,000 packages linked to a coordinated tea.xyz token farming campaign in the npm registry. This is one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history, and represents a defining moment in supply chain security, far surpassing the initial 15,000 packages reported by Sonatype researchers in April 2024. Through a combination of advanced rule-based detection and AI, the research team uncovered a self-replicating attack pattern where threat actors automatically generate and publish packages to earn cryptocurrency rewards without user awareness, revealing how the campaign has expanded exponentially since its…