"No Way To Prevent This" Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens*

Thought this was a reference to the hardcore band for a second… seeing them next month for the first time. I’m pumped! Sucks the malware is back

I avoid NPM like the plague.

I feel like I'm better off for it.

That is pretty evil.

Without signing attestation (both developer and code) there will be no way to find out who was responsible and stop the propagation. This will happen again.

Edit: there have been attempts like https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers, but that hasn't fixed the problem.