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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.
This command line tool is currently in a closed alpha preview. If you would like to try it out get in touch with Gord at gord@bithound.io
Add the latest version of bithound
to your package.json:
npm install bithound --save-dev
Usage: bithound [options] [command]
Commands:
check [url] Check if a sha passes bitHound analysis
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
--repo-token [token] Unique token for private repository (provided by bitHound)
--branch [branch] An optional branch argument. If not provided, the command will attempt to discover it through an env variable
--sha [sha] An optional commit sha argument. If not provided, the command will attempt to discover it through an env variable
FAQs
Commands for interacting with bitHound: https://bithound.io
The npm package bithound receives a total of 1,479 weekly downloads. As such, bithound popularity was classified as popular.
We found that bithound 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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