The Microsoft-owned Github has announced that is has acquired npm, a company with a large registry of JavaScript packages.
Nat Friedman, Github's chief executive officer, who made the announcement in a blog post, wrote that npm's place in the open-source space and their hefty registry of JavaScript packages was a key reason for the purchase.
Office files with nasty macros remain a pesky vector for threat actors, having become popular a couple of years ago, JavaScript has taken over in the past two months in terms of message volume