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Malicious npm Packages Inject SSH Backdoors via Typosquatted Libraries
Socket’s threat research team has detected six malicious npm packages typosquatting popular libraries to insert SSH backdoors.
codeberg.org/Codeberg/avatars
which in turn were inspired by 8biticon avatars
import codeberg.org/Codeberg/avatars
& use string svg = avatars.MakeAvatar(seed)
# will build the binary
go build -o avatars example/main.go
# Create a random avatar and write it to /tmp/avatar.svg. Note that for the same seed string always the same image will be generated.
./avatars my-special-seed-string > /tmp/avatar.svg
# Open SVG file with image viewer
eog /tmp/avatar.svg
go build -o avatars example/main.go
for i in {1..40} ; do
./avatars my-special-seed-string_$i > /tmp/avatar_$i.svg
rsvg-convert /tmp/avatar_$i.svg -z 10 -o /tmp/avatar_$i.png
done
montage -tile 10x4 /tmp/avatar_*.png /tmp/mosaic.png
eog /tmp/mosaic.png
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