NPM Users Download 2.1B Deprecated Packages Weekly, Say Security Researchers

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By EditorDavidJan 20, 2024, 5:34 pm533 ptsHotTop
The cybersecurity site SC Media reports that NPM registry users "download deprecated packages an estimated 2.1 billion times weekly, according to a statistical analysis of the top 50,000 most-downloaded packages in the registry." Deprecated, archived and "orphaned" NPM packages can contain unpatched and/or…

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