[m4r71n]

Since so many vendors discovered these packages seemingly independently, you'd think that they would share those mechanisms with NPM itself so that those packages would never be published in the first place. But I guess that removes their ability to sell an "early alert" mechanism through their offerings...

[progbits]

NPM is owned by github/microsoft. I'm sure they could afford to buy one of these products or just build their own, but clearly security is not a thing they care about.

[codazoda]

Somehow I didn't realize GitHub purchased npm in 2020. GitHub is the second word on npmjs.org. How did I not notice?

[foobarbecue]

Can't help noticing, in the original article:

> The entire attack design assumes Linux or macOS execution environments, checking for os.platform() === 'linux' || 'darwin'. It deliberately skips Windows systems

If I were the conspiracy-minded sort I might jump to some wild conclusions here.

[kjok]

Why should MS buy any of these startups when a developer (not any automated tech) found the malware? It looks like these startups did after-the-fact analysis for PR.