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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.
@artginzburg/npmstalk
Advanced tools
npx @artginzburg/npmstalk username
Output example:
{ total: 1247, packages: { somename: 515, anotherpackage: 732 } }
npm i @artginzburg/npmstalk
import getMaintainerDownloads from '@artginzburg/npmstalk`
async function doSomething() {
// some code
const usernameDownloads = await getMaintainerDownloads('username')
console.log(`Hey, username has ${usernameDownloads.total} downloads already!`)
// ...
}
// ...
doSomething() // Hey, username has 615 downloads already!
For manual testing:
npm start username
For automated testing (not so automated, currently), and using process.env.USER as the username:
npm test
FAQs
NPM total downloads by maintainer username
We found that @artginzburg/npmstalk demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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