Axios npm package compromised in supply-chain attack. How will developers using Linux respond?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/04/01/mitigating-the-axios-npm-supply-chain-compromise/ > On March 31, 2026, two new npm packages for updated versions of Axios, a popular HTTP client for JavaScript that simplifies making HTTP requests to a REST endpoint with over 70 million weekly downloads, were identified as malicious. These versions (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were injected with a malicious dependency to download payloads from known actor command and control (C2). Microsoft Threat Intelligence has attributed this infrastructure and the Axios npm compromise to Sapphire Sleet, a North Korean state actor. Follow the instructions in the article if you think you’re affected. But to me, this incident begs the question, and it hearkens back to my previous thread: Is the Linux environment doing enough for user privacy? I repeat the question once again. There are certainly Linux developers who work with the Axios library, or at least a JavaScript package indirectly depending on it, who are also unfortunate enough to run this version. How will they even know they are compromised, other than by word of mouth? Microsoft has pushed Windows Defender heuristics to detect if a machine is compromised, apply automatic remediation steps and alert the user. There is no common equivalent Linux community response that I’m aware of. We think of ourselves so invulnerable and untouchable and yet we don’t even have the mechanisms to verify if we, are in fact, untouched. The attacks happen through trusted channels, and when they happen, it’s likely that we will never even find out they happened. How much longer until the Linux community recognizes that this mode of operation is not viable, especially when Linux becomes a bigger target with its increasing popularity? Why do we think of ourselves as “above antimalware”?