Faker.js—one of the most widely used open-source packages—was suddenly removed from GitHub, replaced with a haunting message: ...

JavaScript developer Marak Squires wasn't happy about not making money from his open-source libraries, ... To be exact, that's colors.js 1.40 and faker.js 5.5.3. ...

Open source developer Marak Squires appears to have intentionally pushed corrupt updates to two of his libraries on npm and GitHub. ... Squires introduced the faker.js commit on January 4th, ...

Faker.js was similarly sabotaged with the publishing of version 6.6.6. ... Apache Log4j is an open-source library that is used extensively in many Java applications.

Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the ...

Faker.js has been stalled due to financial difficulties, but its working capital will be solicited through the Open Source Collective, a non-profit organization that helps build a sustainable and ...

A developer sabotaged their own open-source libraries, breaking thousands of apps, ... The other, called "Faker.js," has 2.4 million weekly downloads and over 2,500 projects that use it.

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