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Namastex.ai npm Packages Hit with TeamPCP-Style CanisterWorm Malware
Malicious Namastex.ai npm packages appear to replicate TeamPCP-style Canister Worm tradecraft, including exfiltration and self-propagation.
@hapi/cryptiles
Advanced tools
cryptiles is part of the hapi ecosystem and was designed to work seamlessly with the hapi web framework and its other components (but works great on its own or with other frameworks). If you are using a different web framework and find this module useful, check out hapi – they work even better together.
The built-in Node.js 'crypto' module provides cryptographic functionality that includes a set of wrappers for OpenSSL's hash, HMAC, cipher, decipher, sign, and verify functions. It is more comprehensive and versatile compared to @hapi/cryptiles.
bcrypt is a library to help you hash passwords. While it focuses on password hashing and salting, it provides secure hashing mechanisms similar to some of the functionalities in @hapi/cryptiles.
uuid is a library for generating RFC-compliant UUIDs. It focuses on generating unique identifiers, which is a subset of the random string generation functionality provided by @hapi/cryptiles.
FAQs
General purpose crypto utilities
The npm package @hapi/cryptiles receives a total of 1,571,187 weekly downloads. As such, @hapi/cryptiles popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @hapi/cryptiles demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 7 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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