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GemStuffer Campaign Abuses RubyGems as Exfiltration Channel Targeting UK Local Government
GemStuffer abuses RubyGems as an exfiltration channel, packaging scraped UK council portal data into junk gems published from new accounts.
@dotenvx/dotenvx-ext-vault
Advanced tools
🔐 manage .env.vault files
Extend dotenv with vault.
npm install @dotenvx/dotenvx-ext-vault --save
or install globally
brew install dotenvx/brew/dotenvx-ext-vault
dotenvx ext vault help
curl -sfS https://dotenvx.sh/ext/vault | sh
dotenvx ext vault help
curl -L -o dotenvx-ext-vault.tar.gz "https://github.com/dotenvx/dotenvx-ext-vault/releases/latest/download/dotenvx-ext-vault-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m).tar.gz"
tar -xzf dotenvx-ext-vault.tar.gz
./dotenvx-ext-vault help
$ dotenvx ext vault
Usage: @dotenvx/dotenvx-ext-vault [options] [command]
🔐 manage .env.vault files
Options:
-l, --log-level <level> set log level (default: "info")
-q, --quiet sets log level to error
-v, --verbose sets log level to verbose
-d, --debug sets log level to debug
-V, --version output the version number
-h, --help display help for command
Commands:
migrate instructions for migrating .env.vault to encrypted env file(s)
encrypt [options] [directory] encrypt .env.* to .env.vault
decrypt [options] [directory] decrypt .env.vault to .env*
status [directory] compare your .env* content(s) to your .env.vault decrypted content(s)
help [command] display help for command
FAQs
🔐 manage .env.vault files
The npm package @dotenvx/dotenvx-ext-vault receives a total of 1,045 weekly downloads. As such, @dotenvx/dotenvx-ext-vault popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @dotenvx/dotenvx-ext-vault demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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