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Popular npm linter packages hijacked via phishing to drop malware
Popular JavaScript libraries were hijacked this week and turned into malware droppers, in a supply chain attack achieved via targeted phishing and credential theft. The npm package eslint-config-prettier, downloaded over 30 million times weekly, was compromised after its maintainer fell victim to a phishing attack. Other packages, namely eslint-plugin-prettier, synckit, @pkgr/core, and napi-postinstall from the same maintainer, were also targeted. The attacker(s) used stolen […]
North Korean XORIndex malware hidden in 67 malicious npm packages
North Korean threat actors planted 67 malicious packages in the Node Package Manager (npm) online repository to deliver a new malware loader called XORIndex to developer systems. The packages collectively count more than 17,000 downloads and were discovered by researchers at package security platform Socket, who assess them to be part of the continued Contagious Interview operation. Socket researchers […]
New wave of ‘fake interviews’ use 35 npm packages to spread malware
A new wave of North Korea’s ‘Contagious Interview’ campaign is targeting job seekers with malicious npm packages that infect dev’s devices with infostealers and backdoors. The packages were discovered by Socket Threat Research, which reports they load the BeaverTail info-stealer and InvisibleFerret backdoor on victims’ machines, two well-documented payloads associated with DPRK actors. The latest attack wave uses […]
Supply chain attack hits Gluestack NPM packages with 960K weekly downloads
A significant supply chain attack hit NPM after 16 popular Gluestack ‘react-native-aria’ packages with over 950,000 weekly downloads were compromised to include malicious code that acts as a remote access trojan (RAT). GeekFeed determined that the compromise began on June 6 at 4:33 PM EST, when a new version of the react-native-aria/focus package was published to NPM. Since […]
Malicious npm packages posing as utilities delete project directories
Two malicious packages have been discovered in the npm JavaScript package index, which masquerades as useful utilities but, in reality, are destructive data wipers that delete entire application directories. The data wiper packages are ‘express-api-sync’ and ‘system-health-sync-api,’ and pose as database syncing and system health monitoring Ttools. According to open-source software security firm Socket, they […]
Dozens of malicious packages on NPM collect host and network data
60 packages have been discovered in the NPM index that attempt to collect sensitive host and network data and send it to a Discord webhook controlled by the threat actor. According to Socket’s Threat Research team, the packages were uploaded to the NPM repository starting May 12 from three publisher accounts. Each of the malicious packages contains […]
Malicious NPM package uses Unicode steganography to evade detection
A malicious package in the Node Package Manager index uses invisible Unicode characters to hide malicious code and Google Calendar links to host the URL for the command-and-control location. The package, named os-info-checker-es6, appears as an information utility and has been downloaded more than 1,000 times since the beginning of the month. Researchers at Veracode, a code security assessment […]
Supply chain attack hits npm package with 45,000 weekly downloads
An npm package named ‘rand-user-agent’ has been compromised in a supply chain attack to inject obfuscated code that activates a remote access trojan (RAT) on the user’s system. The ‘rand-user-agent‘ package is a tool that generates randomized user-agent strings, which is helpful in web scraping, automated testing, and security research. Although the package has been […]
Malicious PyPI packages abuse Gmail, websockets to hijack systems
Seven malicious PyPi packages were found using Gmail’s SMTP servers and WebSockets for data exfiltration and remote command execution. The packages were discovered by Socket’s threat research team, who reported their findings to the PyPI, resulting in the removal of the packages. However, some of these packages were on PyPI for over four years, and based […]
Ripple’s recommended XRP library xrpl.js hacked to steal wallets
The recommended Ripple cryptocurrency NPM JavaScript library named “xrpl.js” was compromised to steal XRP wallet seeds and private keys and transfer them to an attacker-controlled server, allowing threat actors to steal all the funds stored in the wallets. Malicious code was added to versions 2.14.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, and 4.2.4 of the xrpl NPM package […]