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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.
Recompress ZIP files to their smallest possible sizes.
$ npm install --save advzip-bin
const {execFile} = require('child_process');
const advzip = require('advzip-bin');
execFile(advzip, ['--recompress', '--shrink-extra', 'archive.zip'], err => {
console.log('ZIP file minified!');
});
$ npm install --global advzip-bin
$ advzip --help
Package structure lifted from the sister package advpng-bin.
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AdvZIP bin-wrapper that makes it seamlessly available as a local dependency
The npm package advzip-bin receives a total of 5 weekly downloads. As such, advzip-bin popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that advzip-bin 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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