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Lazarus Strikes npm Again with New Wave of Malicious Packages
The Socket Research Team has discovered six new malicious npm packages linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, designed to steal credentials and deploy backdoors.
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Follow the instructions to set up your project and enable the Cloud Natural Language API.
From the Cloud Console, create a service account,
download its json credentials file, then set the
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
environment variable:
export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/your-project-credentials.json
go build && ./analyze <command> <text>
Where command
is entities
, sentiment
, or syntax
.
For example:
go build && ./analyze entities "Renee French designed the Go gopher."
Prints something like this:
entities: <
name: "Renee French"
type: PERSON
salience: 0.4693242
mentions: <
text: <
content: "Renee French"
>
>
>
entities: <
name: "Go"
type: ORGANIZATION
metadata: <
key: "wikipedia_url"
value: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)"
>
salience: 0.34126133
mentions: <
text: <
content: "Go"
begin_offset: 26
>
>
>
language: "en"
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