Dozens of malicious packages on NPM collect host and network data

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.

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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 a post-install script that automatically executes during ‘npm install’ and collects the following …