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Data Theft Repackaged: A Case Study in Malicious Wrapper Packages on npm
The Socket Research Team breaks down a malicious wrapper package that uses obfuscation to harvest credentials and exfiltrate sensitive data.
The node-os uses npm for package management, but the `npm` command is not sufficient for proper installation of node-os packages.
The node-os uses npm for package management,
but the npm
command is not sufficient for proper installation of node-os packages.
The npkg
command handles all os-related package management.
If you're writing a node.js app, you will still use the npm
command locally.
Usage: npkg COMMAND TARGET
Commands
install install package TARGET from npm
run run a package in the foreground
show list installed packages
start start package TARGET via init
stop stop running package TARGET via init
list list active jobs
status list an active jobs status
config manipulate config from command line
Environment
NPKG_PORT/PORT the port used to connect to init (Default 1)
NPKG_BIND/BIND the address init has bound to (Default localhost)
$ npkg install wssh
$ wssh 192.168.0.123
$ npkg install wssh
$ npkg start wssh
FAQs
The node-os uses npm for package management, but the `npm` command is not sufficient for proper installation of node-os packages.
The npm package bin-npkg receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, bin-npkg popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that bin-npkg 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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