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github.com/open-falcon/falcon-plus

v0.0.0-20170125092511-6483cf5393aa

Live on go

Blocked by Socket

This snippet conditionally executes shell commands in CI based on an environment variable index. It includes an explicit fetch-and-execute command that pipes a remote script into bash without integrity checks. Combined with exec-based shell command execution and environment-driven command selection, this represents a high supply-chain/execution risk and should be reviewed/removed or replaced with integrity-verified, pinned, and non-piped remote code handling.

exp10it

2.3.88

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

This source code is a malicious exploit script designed to remotely install a PHP webshell (vvv<?php eval($_POST[zzz]);?>) on a target web server by delivering an eval-wrapped, chr()-encoded payload via the HTTP User-Agent header and then verifying installation. Despite syntactic errors in the provided fragment, the intent, payload, and delivery mechanism are clear. Do not run this code; treat any occurrences as a high-risk compromise indicator and remove/report accordingly.

corio

2.0.6

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

The code reveals high-risk patterns: automatic remote installation of an external runtime and execution via a shell command, unguarded exception swallowing, and dependency on a potentially untrusted YAMLScript interpreter. If fed with untrusted YAML, from_yaml could trigger arbitrary code execution within the external runtime. The incomplete __main__ section underscores quality and stability concerns. Best practice would remove automatic remote installation, pin a verified version of yamlscript, or bundle a trusted implementation, and add strict input validation, integrity checks, and explicit user consent.

elf-stats-snuggly-ornament-764

1.0.0

by magical_sleigh

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

This code performs unauthorized data collection (reads files under /opt), encodes the collected data, and exfiltrates it to a hard-coded external webhook using shell-executed curl. That is a clear supply-chain/backdoor malicious behavior. The module attempts to hide the exfiltration by returning a benign stats object. Do not use this package; treat it as malicious and remove it from any environment where it might run.

free.cash.app.free.money.tricks.no.payment

5.2.1

by Ranjini

Live on nuget

Blocked by Socket

The DLL’s AssemblyDescription attribute embeds extensive promotional text for unauthorized “Cash App hack” services, including promises of free money, hack codes, and social-engineering instructions. It repeatedly references keywords like “cash app hack”, “free money glitch” and provides links to https://cash-app[.]live—an imitation of the official Cash App site. There is no legitimate code; the file serves exclusively to lure users to phishing or scam pages, posing high financial and legal risk.

calypso-stripe

1.0.0

by string-utils-helper

Removed from npm

Blocked by Socket

The code exhibits potentially malicious behavior by sending system data to an external server without user consent. This poses a significant security risk due to the unauthorized transmission of potentially sensitive information.

Live on npm for 2 days, 17 hours and 27 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

isred

4.1.5

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

This code is malicious: it beacons to an external tracking domain, exfiltrates local environment data to a hardcoded Discord webhook, and attempts to establish a reverse shell to a remote ngrok endpoint by redirecting stdio to a socket and spawning a shell. Even accounting for the missing pty import (likely an incomplete snippet), attacker intent is clear. Do not run this code; any system where this executed should be considered compromised and investigated immediately.

pkscreener

0.45.20240913.566

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

This module implements covert telemetry/exfiltration: it gathers local user identifiers and IP-derived location and pushes them to a hardcoded external GitHub repository, doing so silently and with trivial obfuscation. This is privacy-invasive and constitutes a supply-chain risk. Recommend treating this behavior as malicious or at minimum unacceptable telemetry: remove or disable this code, audit repository contents for sensitive data, and avoid running the package on sensitive hosts. Investigate any pushed commits and revoke compromised git credentials.

ngtek-event-library

1.1.42

by paritshivani

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

The provided code contains a critical security vulnerability in the `retireEvent` method due to a hardcoded session cookie. This cookie could be exploited for session hijacking or unauthorized access. The use of a staging URL for this operation is also a red flag. While other methods appear standard, the presence of this hardcoded credential significantly elevates the security risk.

@agenticmail/enterprise

0.5.540

by ope-olatunji

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

Strong finding: the wallet private key export endpoint is a critical vulnerability that can lead to immediate total loss if misused. This undermines the confidentiality of cryptographic material and should be removed or restricted to encrypted exports with strict access controls and user-scoped permissions. Other notable risks include supply-chain exposure from bootstrap auto-install, extensive dynamic imports, and potential plaintext fallbacks in vault handling. Overall risk is high due to the private key export sink and broad attack surface; remediation should prioritize removing private-key export, hardening vault usage, eliminating unsafe bootstrap behaviors, and tightening runtime module loading and access control.

argutrackdnn.edison.annotation

2.0.250901

by ArgutrackDNN.Edison.Annotation

Live on nuget

Blocked by Socket

This module contains highly suspicious and potentially malicious functionality. It implements an obfuscated runtime loader/unpacker: it reads embedded resources, performs cryptographic transforms, allocates and writes to native executable memory, changes memory protections and invokes code via delegated/native entry points. It also dynamically generates delegates and patches static fields using resolved metadata tokens and low-level reflection, and uses platform-specific P/Invoke to alter process memory and runtime JIT behavior. These are strong indicators of in-memory code injection/loader or backdoor/supply-chain behavior. Treat this package as high-risk: do not use without further code provenance, a full audit of embedded resources, and dynamic analysis in a safe sandbox.

o-table

10.10.23

by testlol435

Removed from npm

Blocked by Socket

This install script runs a Node.js program and then executes a shell script that has been made executable. The contents of both 'index.js' and 'serveo-sh' need to be inspected to determine the full extent of any potential risks.

Live on npm for 14 hours and 50 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

embedxpl

2.15.0

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

This module is highly aligned with offensive exploitation and sensitive information harvesting. It probes MikroTik WebFig endpoints, checks for conditions where HTTP Basic Auth may be exposed to MITM, and—using supplied credentials—enumerates multiple high-sensitivity REST API resources including /rest/ppp/secret. When available, it directly prints PPP secret usernames/passwords, which is credential/secret disclosure. The code is cleartext-capable when ssl=False and includes MITM enablement messaging. While the fragment is PoC-style and does not show OS-level compromise, its intent and output behavior strongly indicate malicious/abuse potential.

maker-governance-portal

99.99.99

by nvm101

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

This fragment performs an unconditional, silent outbound HTTP GET to a hardcoded IP with the package name as a query string — behavior consistent with a beacon/telemetry or a tracking/backdoor mechanism. While the snippet does not show direct sensitive-data exfiltration, the unconditional import-time network call and the hardcoded IP are supply-chain red flags. Treat as suspicious: verify the 'requests' dependency, review the full package for additional exfiltration, and restrict network access until provenance is confirmed.

mtmai

0.3.1462

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

The code exposes powerful administrative actions: arbitrary shell execution, arbitrary file reads, full environment dumps, and building/pushing Docker images to a hardcoded registry. These are not obfuscated but are high-risk capabilities that can be abused for data exfiltration, remote code execution, and supply-chain leakage if the superuser authentication is compromised or misconfigured. The presence of a hardcoded remote image name for docker push is suspicious for unintended outbound artifact exfiltration. Recommendation: avoid including these endpoints in public packages or ensure strict, auditable authentication and input validation; remove hardcoded push targets and avoid returning full environment variables or arbitrary file contents.

my-fun-tools

0.1.1

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

This setup.py contains an encrypted payload and the decryption materials (key, nonce, tag) and executes the decrypted code during package installation using a Unicode-obfuscated exec. That is a high-probability supply-chain/backdoor pattern. Treat this package as malicious and do not install it. If encountered in a repository or package index, remove or quarantine the package and perform forensic analysis of the decrypted payload in a controlled sandbox to determine its exact behavior.

@navancorp/core

1.0.1

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

This code exfiltrates local environment metadata (hostname, platform, username, current working directory) to hardcoded external HTTPS endpoints without consent or visibility. The behavior strongly indicates covert data collection and poses a high privacy and security risk. Treat this module as malicious/compromised: remove it, block the indicated domains, and investigate systems that executed it for potential data leakage.

iframe.mvc

2.2.24

by iFrame.Mvc

Live on nuget

Blocked by Socket

Report 2 identifies high-risk behaviors consistent with supply-chain abuse or malicious backdoors: remote content fetch during setup, unverified unzip into deployment, and reflection-based remote invocation. Immediate mitigations include removing remote DoSetup content fetch, enforcing integrity checks (signatures/hashes, TLS), constraining dynamic assembly loading to trusted assemblies, auditing csproj modifications, and tightening error reporting to avoid leaking sensitive details.

satriotol/fastcrud

11.2.95

Live on composer

Blocked by Socket

This SweetAlert2 bundle contains a malicious, targeted payload. For Russian-language users on specific TLDs, after an initiation delay tracked in localStorage and only after >3 days, the code disables page pointer interactions, injects an <audio> element pointing to a hard-coded external MP3 URL, and attempts to auto-play it in a loop. This is defacement/sabotage and unrelated to the library's purpose — likely a supply-chain compromise. Do not use this package; remove or patch the injected block, rotate any exposed credentials (if any), audit upstream package sources, and restore from a verified clean release.

meichen.plugins

0.1.27

by MeiChen

Live on nuget

Blocked by Socket

This assembly contains a highly obfuscated runtime loader that decrypts embedded payloads and performs native memory allocation and writes, patches runtime function pointers (including CLR/JIT hooks), and can execute in-memory code. These are strong indicators of a backdoor/code-injection loader or loader-for-malicious payload. Even if parts are for legitimate protected plugin loading, the techniques (process memory writes, VirtualAlloc/mprotect, Marshal.WriteIntPtr replacing module pointers, /proc/self/mem usage) are dangerous for supply-chain use. I recommend treating this package as malicious/untrusted and removing it from sensitive environments; at minimum perform full offline analysis of embedded resources and dynamic behavior in a controlled sandbox before any use.

phantom-module

111.0.31

by lwirz

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

This code performs deliberate data exfiltration: it backgrounds a shell that waits, collects logs and any files containing 'flag' across the filesystem, writes them to /tmp/flag.json, and sends that JSON to a hardcoded remote server. It also immediately sends a manifest to the same server. The behavior is strongly indicative of malicious/backdoor activity and should be treated as compromise/supply-chain malware. Remove and investigate any systems where this ran and treat the remote host as malicious.

@asyncapi/converter

1.6.3

by asyncapi-bot

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

This code contains clear automated logic to download, configure and launch GitHub Actions self-hosted runners using an injected token and to programmatically modify repository contents and fetch artifacts. Those behaviors are consistent with supply-chain or persistence abuse (installing a runner to execute workflows on the host and using repo API operations). If used by an untrusted package or executed without explicit user intent/consent, it is high risk and likely malicious for systems security. Review and prevent execution unless you fully trust the source, the token scope, and intended installers. At minimum require explicit user approval, verify downloaded binaries signatures, and avoid passing secrets on command-line arguments.

encounter-playground

0.0.5

by techsupportrxnt

Removed from npm

Blocked by Socket

Most of the code is standard cloud SDK and protocol handling (AWS, Google Secret Manager, serialization/deserialization, HTTP handlers) and expected in such a bundle. However, there is a highly suspicious function (NpmModule.updatePackage) that downloads a package tarball, modifies package.json, injects a local bundle.js (if present on disk), repacks, and runs npm publish. This is a strong supply-chain / trojanization pattern and should be treated as malicious. If this code is included in any dependency used in CI or developer machines with npm credentials or with access to source code, it poses a serious risk (automatic publishing of trojaned packages). I recommend removing or blocking use of the package containing NpmModule.updatePackage and auditing any environment where it ran for unauthorized publishes and credential exposure.

Live on npm for 1 day, 4 hours and 47 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

github.com/open-falcon/falcon-plus

v0.0.0-20170125092511-6483cf5393aa

Live on go

Blocked by Socket

This snippet conditionally executes shell commands in CI based on an environment variable index. It includes an explicit fetch-and-execute command that pipes a remote script into bash without integrity checks. Combined with exec-based shell command execution and environment-driven command selection, this represents a high supply-chain/execution risk and should be reviewed/removed or replaced with integrity-verified, pinned, and non-piped remote code handling.

exp10it

2.3.88

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

This source code is a malicious exploit script designed to remotely install a PHP webshell (vvv<?php eval($_POST[zzz]);?>) on a target web server by delivering an eval-wrapped, chr()-encoded payload via the HTTP User-Agent header and then verifying installation. Despite syntactic errors in the provided fragment, the intent, payload, and delivery mechanism are clear. Do not run this code; treat any occurrences as a high-risk compromise indicator and remove/report accordingly.

corio

2.0.6

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

The code reveals high-risk patterns: automatic remote installation of an external runtime and execution via a shell command, unguarded exception swallowing, and dependency on a potentially untrusted YAMLScript interpreter. If fed with untrusted YAML, from_yaml could trigger arbitrary code execution within the external runtime. The incomplete __main__ section underscores quality and stability concerns. Best practice would remove automatic remote installation, pin a verified version of yamlscript, or bundle a trusted implementation, and add strict input validation, integrity checks, and explicit user consent.

elf-stats-snuggly-ornament-764

1.0.0

by magical_sleigh

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

This code performs unauthorized data collection (reads files under /opt), encodes the collected data, and exfiltrates it to a hard-coded external webhook using shell-executed curl. That is a clear supply-chain/backdoor malicious behavior. The module attempts to hide the exfiltration by returning a benign stats object. Do not use this package; treat it as malicious and remove it from any environment where it might run.

free.cash.app.free.money.tricks.no.payment

5.2.1

by Ranjini

Live on nuget

Blocked by Socket

The DLL’s AssemblyDescription attribute embeds extensive promotional text for unauthorized “Cash App hack” services, including promises of free money, hack codes, and social-engineering instructions. It repeatedly references keywords like “cash app hack”, “free money glitch” and provides links to https://cash-app[.]live—an imitation of the official Cash App site. There is no legitimate code; the file serves exclusively to lure users to phishing or scam pages, posing high financial and legal risk.

calypso-stripe

1.0.0

by string-utils-helper

Removed from npm

Blocked by Socket

The code exhibits potentially malicious behavior by sending system data to an external server without user consent. This poses a significant security risk due to the unauthorized transmission of potentially sensitive information.

Live on npm for 2 days, 17 hours and 27 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

isred

4.1.5

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

This code is malicious: it beacons to an external tracking domain, exfiltrates local environment data to a hardcoded Discord webhook, and attempts to establish a reverse shell to a remote ngrok endpoint by redirecting stdio to a socket and spawning a shell. Even accounting for the missing pty import (likely an incomplete snippet), attacker intent is clear. Do not run this code; any system where this executed should be considered compromised and investigated immediately.

pkscreener

0.45.20240913.566

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

This module implements covert telemetry/exfiltration: it gathers local user identifiers and IP-derived location and pushes them to a hardcoded external GitHub repository, doing so silently and with trivial obfuscation. This is privacy-invasive and constitutes a supply-chain risk. Recommend treating this behavior as malicious or at minimum unacceptable telemetry: remove or disable this code, audit repository contents for sensitive data, and avoid running the package on sensitive hosts. Investigate any pushed commits and revoke compromised git credentials.

ngtek-event-library

1.1.42

by paritshivani

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

The provided code contains a critical security vulnerability in the `retireEvent` method due to a hardcoded session cookie. This cookie could be exploited for session hijacking or unauthorized access. The use of a staging URL for this operation is also a red flag. While other methods appear standard, the presence of this hardcoded credential significantly elevates the security risk.

@agenticmail/enterprise

0.5.540

by ope-olatunji

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

Strong finding: the wallet private key export endpoint is a critical vulnerability that can lead to immediate total loss if misused. This undermines the confidentiality of cryptographic material and should be removed or restricted to encrypted exports with strict access controls and user-scoped permissions. Other notable risks include supply-chain exposure from bootstrap auto-install, extensive dynamic imports, and potential plaintext fallbacks in vault handling. Overall risk is high due to the private key export sink and broad attack surface; remediation should prioritize removing private-key export, hardening vault usage, eliminating unsafe bootstrap behaviors, and tightening runtime module loading and access control.

argutrackdnn.edison.annotation

2.0.250901

by ArgutrackDNN.Edison.Annotation

Live on nuget

Blocked by Socket

This module contains highly suspicious and potentially malicious functionality. It implements an obfuscated runtime loader/unpacker: it reads embedded resources, performs cryptographic transforms, allocates and writes to native executable memory, changes memory protections and invokes code via delegated/native entry points. It also dynamically generates delegates and patches static fields using resolved metadata tokens and low-level reflection, and uses platform-specific P/Invoke to alter process memory and runtime JIT behavior. These are strong indicators of in-memory code injection/loader or backdoor/supply-chain behavior. Treat this package as high-risk: do not use without further code provenance, a full audit of embedded resources, and dynamic analysis in a safe sandbox.

o-table

10.10.23

by testlol435

Removed from npm

Blocked by Socket

This install script runs a Node.js program and then executes a shell script that has been made executable. The contents of both 'index.js' and 'serveo-sh' need to be inspected to determine the full extent of any potential risks.

Live on npm for 14 hours and 50 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

embedxpl

2.15.0

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

This module is highly aligned with offensive exploitation and sensitive information harvesting. It probes MikroTik WebFig endpoints, checks for conditions where HTTP Basic Auth may be exposed to MITM, and—using supplied credentials—enumerates multiple high-sensitivity REST API resources including /rest/ppp/secret. When available, it directly prints PPP secret usernames/passwords, which is credential/secret disclosure. The code is cleartext-capable when ssl=False and includes MITM enablement messaging. While the fragment is PoC-style and does not show OS-level compromise, its intent and output behavior strongly indicate malicious/abuse potential.

maker-governance-portal

99.99.99

by nvm101

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

This fragment performs an unconditional, silent outbound HTTP GET to a hardcoded IP with the package name as a query string — behavior consistent with a beacon/telemetry or a tracking/backdoor mechanism. While the snippet does not show direct sensitive-data exfiltration, the unconditional import-time network call and the hardcoded IP are supply-chain red flags. Treat as suspicious: verify the 'requests' dependency, review the full package for additional exfiltration, and restrict network access until provenance is confirmed.

mtmai

0.3.1462

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

The code exposes powerful administrative actions: arbitrary shell execution, arbitrary file reads, full environment dumps, and building/pushing Docker images to a hardcoded registry. These are not obfuscated but are high-risk capabilities that can be abused for data exfiltration, remote code execution, and supply-chain leakage if the superuser authentication is compromised or misconfigured. The presence of a hardcoded remote image name for docker push is suspicious for unintended outbound artifact exfiltration. Recommendation: avoid including these endpoints in public packages or ensure strict, auditable authentication and input validation; remove hardcoded push targets and avoid returning full environment variables or arbitrary file contents.

my-fun-tools

0.1.1

Live on pypi

Blocked by Socket

This setup.py contains an encrypted payload and the decryption materials (key, nonce, tag) and executes the decrypted code during package installation using a Unicode-obfuscated exec. That is a high-probability supply-chain/backdoor pattern. Treat this package as malicious and do not install it. If encountered in a repository or package index, remove or quarantine the package and perform forensic analysis of the decrypted payload in a controlled sandbox to determine its exact behavior.

@navancorp/core

1.0.1

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

This code exfiltrates local environment metadata (hostname, platform, username, current working directory) to hardcoded external HTTPS endpoints without consent or visibility. The behavior strongly indicates covert data collection and poses a high privacy and security risk. Treat this module as malicious/compromised: remove it, block the indicated domains, and investigate systems that executed it for potential data leakage.

iframe.mvc

2.2.24

by iFrame.Mvc

Live on nuget

Blocked by Socket

Report 2 identifies high-risk behaviors consistent with supply-chain abuse or malicious backdoors: remote content fetch during setup, unverified unzip into deployment, and reflection-based remote invocation. Immediate mitigations include removing remote DoSetup content fetch, enforcing integrity checks (signatures/hashes, TLS), constraining dynamic assembly loading to trusted assemblies, auditing csproj modifications, and tightening error reporting to avoid leaking sensitive details.

satriotol/fastcrud

11.2.95

Live on composer

Blocked by Socket

This SweetAlert2 bundle contains a malicious, targeted payload. For Russian-language users on specific TLDs, after an initiation delay tracked in localStorage and only after >3 days, the code disables page pointer interactions, injects an <audio> element pointing to a hard-coded external MP3 URL, and attempts to auto-play it in a loop. This is defacement/sabotage and unrelated to the library's purpose — likely a supply-chain compromise. Do not use this package; remove or patch the injected block, rotate any exposed credentials (if any), audit upstream package sources, and restore from a verified clean release.

meichen.plugins

0.1.27

by MeiChen

Live on nuget

Blocked by Socket

This assembly contains a highly obfuscated runtime loader that decrypts embedded payloads and performs native memory allocation and writes, patches runtime function pointers (including CLR/JIT hooks), and can execute in-memory code. These are strong indicators of a backdoor/code-injection loader or loader-for-malicious payload. Even if parts are for legitimate protected plugin loading, the techniques (process memory writes, VirtualAlloc/mprotect, Marshal.WriteIntPtr replacing module pointers, /proc/self/mem usage) are dangerous for supply-chain use. I recommend treating this package as malicious/untrusted and removing it from sensitive environments; at minimum perform full offline analysis of embedded resources and dynamic behavior in a controlled sandbox before any use.

phantom-module

111.0.31

by lwirz

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

This code performs deliberate data exfiltration: it backgrounds a shell that waits, collects logs and any files containing 'flag' across the filesystem, writes them to /tmp/flag.json, and sends that JSON to a hardcoded remote server. It also immediately sends a manifest to the same server. The behavior is strongly indicative of malicious/backdoor activity and should be treated as compromise/supply-chain malware. Remove and investigate any systems where this ran and treat the remote host as malicious.

@asyncapi/converter

1.6.3

by asyncapi-bot

Live on npm

Blocked by Socket

This code contains clear automated logic to download, configure and launch GitHub Actions self-hosted runners using an injected token and to programmatically modify repository contents and fetch artifacts. Those behaviors are consistent with supply-chain or persistence abuse (installing a runner to execute workflows on the host and using repo API operations). If used by an untrusted package or executed without explicit user intent/consent, it is high risk and likely malicious for systems security. Review and prevent execution unless you fully trust the source, the token scope, and intended installers. At minimum require explicit user approval, verify downloaded binaries signatures, and avoid passing secrets on command-line arguments.

encounter-playground

0.0.5

by techsupportrxnt

Removed from npm

Blocked by Socket

Most of the code is standard cloud SDK and protocol handling (AWS, Google Secret Manager, serialization/deserialization, HTTP handlers) and expected in such a bundle. However, there is a highly suspicious function (NpmModule.updatePackage) that downloads a package tarball, modifies package.json, injects a local bundle.js (if present on disk), repacks, and runs npm publish. This is a strong supply-chain / trojanization pattern and should be treated as malicious. If this code is included in any dependency used in CI or developer machines with npm credentials or with access to source code, it poses a serious risk (automatic publishing of trojaned packages). I recommend removing or blocking use of the package containing NpmModule.updatePackage and auditing any environment where it ran for unauthorized publishes and credential exposure.

Live on npm for 1 day, 4 hours and 47 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

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Supply chain attacks are on the rise

Attackers have taken notice of the opportunity to attack organizations through open source dependencies. Supply chain attacks rose a whopping 700% in the past year, with over 15,000 recorded attacks.

Nov 23, 2025

Shai Hulud v2

Shai Hulud v2 campaign: preinstall script (setup_bun.js) and loader (setup_bin.js) that installs/locates Bun and executes an obfuscated bundled malicious script (bun_environment.js) with suppressed output.

Nov 05, 2025

Elves on npm

A surge of auto-generated "elf-stats" npm packages is being published every two minutes from new accounts. These packages contain simple malware variants and are being rapidly removed by npm. At least 420 unique packages have been identified, often described as being generated every two minutes, with some mentioning a capture the flag challenge or test.

Jul 04, 2025

RubyGems Automation-Tool Infostealer

Since at least March 2023, a threat actor using multiple aliases uploaded 60 malicious gems to RubyGems that masquerade as automation tools (Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Telegram, WordPress, and Naver). The gems display a Korean Glimmer-DSL-LibUI login window, then exfiltrate the entered username/password and the host's MAC address via HTTP POST to threat actor-controlled infrastructure.

Mar 13, 2025

North Korea's Contagious Interview Campaign

Since late 2024, we have tracked hundreds of malicious npm packages and supporting infrastructure tied to North Korea's Contagious Interview operation, with tens of thousands of downloads targeting developers and tech job seekers. The threat actors run a factory-style playbook: recruiter lures and fake coding tests, polished GitHub templates, and typosquatted or deceptive dependencies that install or import into real projects.

Jul 23, 2024

Network Reconnaissance Campaign

A malicious npm supply chain attack that leveraged 60 packages across three disposable npm accounts to fingerprint developer workstations and CI/CD servers during installation. Each package embedded a compact postinstall script that collected hostnames, internal and external IP addresses, DNS resolvers, usernames, home and working directories, and package metadata, then exfiltrated this data as a JSON blob to a hardcoded Discord webhook.

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