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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.
Check whether a string is a URL.
npm install be-url
import isUrl from 'be-url'
const valid = isUrl('https://www.example.com/test.html')
isUrl(string, opt)
Returns a Boolean indicating whether string
is a URL.
Example: consider example.com as invalid url
{
exclude: {
domain: 'example.com',
}
}
Example: consider undefined in path as invalid url
{
exclude: {
path: 'undefined',
}
}
MIT
This library is inspired by is-url, but with more options, please refer to is-url at https://github.com/segmentio/is-url
FAQs
validate url
The npm package be-url receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, be-url popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that be-url 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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