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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.
@substrate/txwrapper-core
Advanced tools
yarn add @substrate/txwrapper-core
Have a look at the txwrapper creation guide for chain builders to see more guidance on how to use this package to build a chain specific txwrapper.
This is a list of env variables that are used inside of txwrapper-core.
createMetadata specific env vars.Summary:
createMetadata memoizes the call to ensure metadata is not reallocated in memory if it is the same call.
Methods that actively use createMetadata and are affected are:
defineMethodcreateDecoratedTxcreateDecoratedConstantscreateSignedTxdecodeSignedTxdecodeSigningPayloaddecodeUnsignedTxNOTE: getRegistryBase uses createMetadataUnmemoized
TXWRAPPER_METADATA_CACHE_MAXSummary:
Set the max amount of memoized calls we want in the cache. It uses an LRU cache to handle the input and output of values. This takes in an integer. Ex: export TXWRAPPER_METADATA_CACHE_MAX=10. This will default to unlimited size if the value is not inputted.
NOTES:
TXWRAPPER_METADATA_CACHE_MAX_AGESummary:
Set the TTL (Time To Live) for items in the memoized cache. This takes in an integer in the measurement of milliseconds. Ex: export TXWRAPPER_METADATA_CACHE_MAX_AGE=1000 for 1 second.
FAQs
Core components for creating a txwrapper lib.
The npm package @substrate/txwrapper-core receives a total of 151,061 weekly downloads. As such, @substrate/txwrapper-core popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @substrate/txwrapper-core demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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