The story behind colors.js and faker.js

The bizarre case of the author who corrupted his own npm packages – colors.js and faker.js. Originally reported by Bleeping Computer on Jan 9th the author of npm packages colors.js and faker.js…

swyx on X: News: Marak adds an infinite loop to break the `colors` package, to protest lack of open-source funding. This follows the faker.js issue. The message is marred by troll behavior

swyx on X: News: Marak adds an infinite loop to break the `colors` package, to protest lack of open-source funding. This follows the faker.js issue. The message is marred by troll behavior

Malicious modifications to open source projects affecting thousands - Sysdig Secure – Sysdig

Open source maintainer pulls the plug on npm packages colors and faker, now what?

Getting Started With Faker.js: A Developer's Guide

wtf is that · Issue #290 · Marak/colors.js · GitHub

The story behind colors.js and faker.js

Open Source Developer Sabotages npm Packages 'Colors,' 'Faker' - FOSSA

The story behind colors.js and faker.js

Marak, creator of faker.js who recently deleted the project due to lack of funding and abuse of open source projects/developers pushed some strange Anti American update which has an infinite loop

javascript - What happened with faker.js - Stack Overflow